A pending Senate Bill, SB 2943, would provide the Community and Residential Services Authority (“CRSA”) the authority to place students who have been found eligible for residential placement within residential agencies pursuant to individual agreements. Currently, Illinois students who have been recommended for residential placement by their local school districts can only be placed within facilities which are approved by the Illinois State Board of Education (“ISBE”). This would provide the CRSA, a subagency of the ISBE, to circumvent the approval requirement and place students at non-approved programs on an individualized basis.
November 2021
