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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1895
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 1895 on page 4, by
3 replacing lines 21 through 30 with the following:
4 "School personnel may consider not giving the Illinois
5 Standards Achievement Test or the Prairie State Achievement
6 Examination to any student who has been enrolled in a State
7 approved bilingual education program less than 3 cumulative
8 academic years shall be exempted if the student's lack of
9 English as determined by an English language proficiency test
10 would keep the student from understanding the test., and
11 That student student's district shall participate in State
12 assessments developed for students with limited English
13 proficiency, unless the student was enrolled in a district
14 after September 30 and therefore has not attended school in
15 that district for a full academic year have an alternative
16 test program in place for that student. The State Board of
17 Education shall appoint a task force of concerned parents,
18 teachers, school administrators and other professionals to
19 assist in identifying such alternative tests. Reasonable
20 accommodations as prescribed"; and
21 on page 5, line 11, by replacing "performance levels" with
22 "any Prairie State Achievement Awards performance levels";
23 and
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1 on page 9, line 9, by replacing "weeks during" with "specific
2 dates on weeks during"; and
3 on page 9, line 21, after "student", by inserting the
4 following:
5 "or a student in a State-approved transitional bilingual
6 education program or a transitional program of instruction
7 who is administered a State assessment developed for students
8 with limited English proficiency in accordance with the
9 requirements of subsection (a) of this Section"; and
10 on page 10, line 6, after "students.", by inserting the
11 following:
12 "All pupils who are enrolled in a State-approved transitional
13 bilingual education program or transitional program of
14 instruction and whose lack of English as determined by an
15 English language proficiency test would keep them from
16 understanding the Prairie State Achievement Examination
17 nevertheless shall have the option of taking the
18 examination.".