Bill Text: IL HJR0117 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: With respect to the Report on Waiver of School Code Mandates filed by the State Board of Education, (i) denies an appeal of an administrative rule waiver request made by Elgin SD 46 - Kane with respect to transitional bilingual education that was denied by the State Board of Education, (ii) partially disapproves school district requests for waivers relating to the behind-the-wheel instruction portion of driver education, and (iii) approves the waiver request made by Palatine CCSD 15 - Cook with respect to physical education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-23 - Referred to Rules Committee [HJR0117 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HJR0117-Introduced.html

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, The State Board of Education has filed its Report
3 on Waiver of School Code Mandates, dated March 1, 2010, with
4 the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Secretary of
5 State of Illinois as required by Section 2-3.25g of the School
6 Code; therefore, be it
7 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
8 NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE
9 SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the appeal of an administrative
10 rule waiver request made by Elgin SD 46 - Kane with respect to
11 transitional bilingual education that was denied by the State
12 Board of Education, identified in the report filed by the State
13 Board of Education as request WM200-5289-3A, is denied; and be
14 it further
15 RESOLVED, That each of the school district waiver requests
16 identified below by school district name and by the identifying
17 number and subject area of the waiver request as summarized in
18 the report filed by the State Board of Education is approved
19 for only one year and disapproved for the remaining years:
20 (1) Reavis THSD 220 - Cook, WM100-5243, driver
21 education - behind-the-wheel instruction;
22 (2) Maine THSD 207 - Cook, WM100-5251-2, driver
23 education - behind-the-wheel instruction;

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1 (3) Wheaton CUSD 200 - DuPage, WM100-5269, driver
2 education - behind-the-wheel instruction;
3 (4) Moline USD 40 - Rock Island, WM100-5282-2, driver
4 education - behind-the-wheel instruction;
5 (5) Lyons THSD 204 - Cook, WM100-5286, driver education -
6 behind-the-wheel instruction;
7 (6) Triad CUSD 2 - Madison, WM100-5305, driver
8 education - behind-the-wheel instruction; and
9 (7) Thornton Fractional THSD 215 - Cook, WM100-5320-1,
10 driver education - behind-the-wheel instruction; and be it
11 further
12 RESOLVED, That the request made by Elgin SD U-46 - Kane
13 with respect to driver education - behind-the-wheel
14 instruction, identified in the report filed by the State Board
15 of Education as request WM100-5289-2, is approved for only one
16 year and for the substitution of only 4 hours of
17 behind-the-wheel instruction with 16 hours of simulator use and
18 is disapproved for the remaining years and hour; and be it
19 further;
20 RESOLVED, That the request made by Palatine CCSD 15 - Cook
21 with respect to physical education, identified in the report
22 filed by the State Board of Education as request WM100-5294, is
23 approved; however, this approval shall not be interpreted as
24 General Assembly approval of the merits of the district's

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1 non-uniform recess policy.
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