[aisle] Replacement Charges

[Ericka Schilling]

Interesting. Neither admin or IT has breathed a word of this to me.
I'm thinking it will probably be dropped on us at our district-wide
department meeting in March so we can delete everything before the end of
the year.
Thanks for the info!

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023, 5:07 PM lori--- via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I scoured the archives and thanks to Tad Andracki, who posted this link:
> https://ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=102-0805&GA=102
>
>  found this on the Illinois General Assembly website:
>
>  (105 ILCS 5/10-20.13)  (from Ch. 122, par. 10-20.13)
>     Sec. 10-20.13. Textbooks for children of parents unable to
> buy them and other fees and fines.
>     (a) To purchase, at the expense of the district, a
> sufficient number of textbooks for children whose parents are
> unable to buy them, including but not limited to children
> living in households that meet the free lunch or breakfast
> eligibility guidelines established by the federal government
> pursuant to Section 1758 of the federal Richard B. Russell
> National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1758; 7 C.F.R. 245 et
> seq.) and homeless children and youth as defined in Section
> 11434a of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
> (42 U.S.C. 11434a), subject to verification as set forth in
> subsection (c) of this Section. Such textbooks shall be loaned
> only, and the directors shall require the teacher to see that
> they are properly cared for and returned at the end of each
> term of school.
>     (b) To waive all fees and any fines for the loss of school
> property assessed by the district on children whose parents
> are unable to afford them, including but not limited to:
>         (1) children living in households that meet the free
>     lunch or breakfast eligibility guidelines established by
>     the federal government pursuant to Section 1758 of the
>     federal Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42
>     U.S.C. 1758; 7 C.F.R. 245 et seq.), subject to
>     verification as set forth in subsection (c) of this
>     Section, and
>         (2)homeless children and youth as defined in Section
>     11434a of the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance
>     Act (42 U.S.C. 11434a).
>     Notice of waiver availability shall be given to parents or
> guardians with every bill for fees or fines. The school board
> shall adopt written policies and procedures for such waiver of
> fees in accordance with regulations promulgated by the State
> Board of Education.
>
>
> >>Does anyone know where I can find "the law that changed" ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Lori Jones
> > Barrington 220
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  My district implemented this January 1.  No lost fees for books or
> >> materials for any student. The bill specifically identifies students on
> >> fee
> >> waivers, but we would have to look up each student to see if they were
> >> on
> >> a
> >> waiver and charge them if they weren't.  We didn't feel searching for
> >> this
> >> information was equitable for all of our students or the most
> >> responsible
> >> use of our time (I'm now a solo librarian in 5 buildings with 5 full
> >> time
> >> clerks), so we removed lost and damaged fines for all students.
> >>
> >> We are allowed to charge for INTENTIONAL damage for any materials per
> >> this
> >> bill (we were told that by the business office) but again that requires
> >> us
> >> to interrogate students about how their books were damaged.  We don't
> >> handle any Chromebook fees so that's not on our plate.
> >>
> >> Our district agreed to pay to replace all the lost/damaged books we are
> >> no
> >> longer charging for so that we don't lose the inventory and the
> >> replacement
> >> doesn't come from our library budget.
> >>
> >> It's all a bit fuzzy to be honest!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 9:53 AM Jacob Roskovensky via AISLE <
> >> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
> >>
> >>> So administration is saying there is now a law that doesn't allow for
> >>> us
> >>> to charge students that are free or reduced.   Does anyone know
> >>> anything
> >>> about this?    I am being told if they lose a chromebook we can't even
> >>> assign a dollar amount to their account.
> >>>
> >>> --
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> >>> Danville School District 118 <https://www.danville118.org/>
> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>
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