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<title>Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SR 483    </title>
<shortdesc>EDUCATION-IMAGE TEST-EXTEND</shortdesc>
<sponsor>
<sponsorhead1>Senate Sponsors</sponsorhead1><sponsors>Sen. Iris Y. Martinez-Michael Noland</sponsors>
</sponsor>
<lastaction>
<statusdate>3/5/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Resolution Adopted</action>
</lastaction>
<synopsis>
<synopsistitle></synopsistitle>
<SynopsisText>     Urges the State Board of Education to request a one-year extension from the U.S. Department of Education so that the Illinois Measure of Annual Growth in English (IMAGE) Test may be administered in 2008, and urges the U.S. Department of Education to grant the extension.</SynopsisText><synopsistitle>Senate Committee Amendment No. 1</synopsistitle>
<SynopsisText>Deletes everything after the heading. Urges the State Board of Education to make a formal request to the U.S. Department of Education that the results from the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and Prairie State Achievement Examination scores for those students with limited proficiency in English who would otherwise have been eligible to take the Illinois Measure of Annual Growth in English (IMAGE) Test in 2008 and 2009 not be used to calculate Annual Yearly Progress for the next 2 years.</SynopsisText></synopsis>
<actions>
<statusdate>1/10/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Filed with Secretary</action>
<statusdate>1/10/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Referred to Rules</action>
<statusdate>2/7/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Assigned to Education</action>
<statusdate>2/14/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Secretary by Sen. Iris Y. Martinez</action>
<statusdate>2/14/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules</action>
<statusdate>2/27/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to  Education</action>
<statusdate>2/27/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adopted</action>
<statusdate>2/28/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Be Adopted as Amended Education;  010-000-000</action>
<statusdate>2/28/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Placed on Calendar Order of Secretary's Desk Resolutions March 5, 2008</action>
<statusdate>3/5/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael Noland</action>
<statusdate>3/5/2008</statusdate><chamber>Senate</chamber><action>Resolution Adopted</action>
</actions>
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