August 2006

DOE does away with DE1 form for driver’s ed

Districts will no longer be required to submit the DE1 form, which identified the qualifications of its driver’s education instructors. Instead, the Department of Education will generate the necessary information from its database and provide it directly to the state’s Driver’s Licensing office and exam stations. The list of properly authorized instructors will be updated twice a year.

“We rarely get the chance to eliminate paperwork for our constituents, so we are happy to be able to streamline this process,” said Melody Schopp, director of the department’s Office of Accreditation and Teacher Quality.

Districts still will be responsible to ensure that each person teaching driver’s education has a current teaching certificate with the driver’s ed endorsement, and has a valid driver’s license. However, they won’t need to report that information to the state.

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