Illinois Compiled Statutes
105 ILCS 10/7 (2026)
(a) Parents shall have the right to challenge the accuracy, relevance or propriety of any entry in the school student records, exclusive of (i) academic grades of their child and (ii) references to expulsions or out-of-school suspensions, if the challenge is made at the time the student's school student records are forwarded to another school to which the student is transferring
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(105 ILCS 10/7)
(from Ch. 122, par. 50-7)
Sec. 7.
(a) Parents shall have the right to challenge the
accuracy, relevance or propriety of any entry in the school student
records, exclusive of (i) academic grades of their child and (ii)
references to expulsions or out-of-school suspensions, if the
challenge is made at the time the student's school student records are
forwarded to another school to which the student is transferring.
(b) The State Board shall prescribe by regulation procedures
to govern challenges to school student records under this Act.
Such challenge procedures shall provide for a hearing at which
each party shall have:
(1) The right to present evidence and to call | witnesses; |
(2) The right to cross-examine witnesses;
(3) The right to counsel;
(4) The right to a written statement of any decision | and the reasons therefor; |
(5) The right to appeal an adverse decision to an | administrative tribunal or official to be established or designated by the State Board. |
(c) A final decision under the procedures established
pursuant to this Section may be appealed to the Circuit Court of the
County in which the school is located.
(d) Parents shall also have the right to insert in their
child's school student record a statement of reasonable length
setting forth their position on any disputed information contained in that
record. The school shall include a copy of such statement in any subsequent
dissemination of the information in dispute.
(Source: P.A. 89-261, eff. 8-10-95.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2014–2014 · leading case: Bd. of Educ. of the City of Chicago v. Illinois Educ. Labor Relations Bd., 2013 IL App (1st) 122447 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014).
Bd. of Educ. of the City of Chicago v. Illinois Educ. Labor Relations Bd., 2013 IL App (1st) 122447 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “” 105 ILCS 10/7 (West 2010). We see no basis upon which to conclude that the union’s need for student records, under any and all circumstances, takes precedence over the right of parents to notice and the opportunity to challenge the release of their child’s records.”
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