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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 114

(As Amended by Senate Amendment No. 1)

WHEREAS, The State Board of Education has filed its Report on Waiver of School Code Mandates, dated March 1, 2010, with the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Secretary of State of Illinois as required by Section 2-3.25g of the School Code; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that the 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, identified in the report filed by the State Board of Education as request WM200-5289-3A, is denied; and be it further

RESOLVED, That each of the school district waiver requests identified below by school district name and by the identifying number and subject area of the waiver request as summarized in the report filed by the State Board of Education is approved for only one year and disapproved for the remaining years:

(1) Reavis THSD 220 - Cook, WM100-5243, driver education - behind-the-wheel instruction;

(2) Maine THSD 207 - Cook, WM100-5251-2, driver education - behind-the-wheel instruction;

(3) Wheaton CUSD 200 - DuPage, WM100-5269, driver education - behind-the-wheel instruction;

(4) Moline USD 40 - Rock Island, WM100-5282-2, driver education - behind-the-wheel instruction;

(5) Lyons THSD 204 - Cook, WM100-5286, driver education - behind-the-wheel instruction;

(6) Triad CUSD 2 - Madison, WM100-5305, driver education - behind-the-wheel instruction; and

(7) Thornton Fractional THSD 215 - Cook, WM100-5320-1, driver education - behind-the-wheel instruction; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the request made by Elgin SD U-46 - Kane with respect to driver education - behind-the-wheel instruction, identified in the report filed by the State Board of Education as request WM100-5289-2, is approved for only one year and for the substitution of only 4 hours of behind-the-wheel instruction with 16 hours of simulator use and is disapproved for the remaining years and hour; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the request made by Palatine CCSD 15 - Cook with respect to physical education, identified in the report filed by the State Board of Education as request WM100-5294, is approved; however, this approval shall not be interpreted as General Assembly approval of the merits of the district's non-uniform recess policy.