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State Representative Adam Niemerg (R-Dieterich) is pleased to announce that his first piece of legislation in his first term in the General Assembly passed unanimously out of the Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter Schools Committee.
House Bill (HB) 217 would allow local school districts to decide if they would like to put the words “In God We Trust” back on public school buildings anywhere in Illinois. [Read more...]
Governor J.B. Pritzker’s latest decision to prohibit high school basketball for boys and girls is a perfect example of his do-what-I-tell-you approach rather than a Liberty-first solution.
It’s a mindset that plagues “big government” types who believe the best governance is centralized control. The best place for decision-making impacting local communities is not in Springfield or Chicago – it’s in your community. [Read more...]
By Jessica Jackson and Kathy Sands
All three schools in the NCOE District CUSD #3 have seen a decrease in the number of remote learners since the beginning of the school year with more students returning to in person learning. The principals reported that all three schools planned to hold parent teacher conferences this week through phone calls, Google meet, or emails. [Read more...]
A town hall meeting will be held Monday, Aug. 3 at 6 p.m. to explore educational options for school children during the continued COVID-19 situation. The meeting will be at Rig Ministry, 215 Industrial Dr. (enter from the north), Carmi, IL.
After much of the meeting time was spent discussing the back-to-school transition plan and how that might work in practice, the NCOE CUSD#3 school board voted Wednesday night to open the schools for in-person learning, with the option of e-learning, and to accept the ISBE and IDPH guidelines for re-opening. [Read more...]
As the battle over the Illinois governor's COVID-19 restrictions rages on in courtrooms throughout the state of Illinois, new back-to-school guidelines handed down from the ISBE on June 23 are causing a great deal of consternation among parents and school boards alike and the battle is heating up. In a letter from lawyer Thomas DeVore to Illinois Department of Health officials, two private schools and one public school in Hutsonville, IL have already stated their intentions that they will not be complying with the guidelines, stating they are illegal and cannot be mandated. [Read more...]
Monday night in Carmi saw 55 interested parties and parents of schoolchildren gather at the R.I.G. Ministries to hear details about plans for a new private Christian school in White County. With COVID restrictions on the schools being advocated by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and the advancing progressive agenda that is promoted in many public schools, some parents are feeling frustrated about the state of schooling in general in Illinois. [Read more...]