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Instilling dread in the competition for another year. The last weekend of Sectional competition is over, and both North and South advanced several team members as well as Performance in the Round to the State Final competition next weekend, Feb. 19-20 in Peoria IL. North advanced eight Speech team members in six solo and duet [...]

Saturday May 30th I received the following letter from Board President Julia Beckman, denying my May 16th appeal of the May 14th denial of my May 5th FOIA request to inspect the verbatim minutes of the April 27th meeting of the CHSD99 School Board:

HB4565 was introduced yesterday on the Illinois House floor. The bill as introduced would make it a Class 4 Felony to use school property for campaign purposes, any other provision of the code notwithstanding.

Transparency, or lack thereof. Last weekend I filed a Freedom of Information Request via email to CHSD99′s Board of Education regarding their Closed Session that began the April 27th School Board meeting.

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) stirred controversy from the start .  The NCLB Act mandated that schools improve academic performance of students each year.  Response to Intervention (RTI) legislation additionally requires schools to provide a system of interventions to students who are not succeeding.  Both of these added cost and complexity to education [...]