Delivered via email: May 27
Oppose HB2970: Notice to Remedy
IASB is urgently asking you to oppose HB2970 (Sen. Celina Villanueva), which is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Labor Committee TODAY, May 27 at 4 p.m. The bill creates several significant challenges for school districts in managing employee misconduct and ensuring accountability in Illinois schools.
File a Witness Slip in Opposition
To fill out a witness slip:
- Click on the button above and fill out the Identification portion of the form with your information.
- Under the Firm/Business or Agency please put your school district
- Under Representation, type “myself” or “self”
- Under the drop down in description please select “Original Bill”
- Under Position, click on “Opponent” and “Record of Appearance Only” under Testimony.
- Click on the Terms of Agreement and then Create (Slip)
HB2970 limits the effectiveness of these notices by capping them at four years and requiring that the school district make reasonable efforts to remove the notice to remedy from personnel files after just four years. This undermines long-term accountability and weakens the progressive discipline process.
HB2970 would allow teachers to grieve the issuance of a notice to remedy, adding procedural hurdles and potentially delaying necessary disciplinary action. The bill also imposes strict requirements on how misconduct must be described in a notice, making it more difficult for administrators to address evolving or pattern-based issues and restricting their ability to manage behavior that impacts students and the school community.