Illinois college agrees to pay student $80K after ‘silencing’ her conservative views
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville has also agreed that three of its professors will have to take mandatory training related to free speech on college campuses Daily Express :: News Feed
Illinois shooting: Multiple ambulances called to amusement park as active shooter reported
POLICE AND AMBULANCE SERVICES have been called to an amusement park in Illinois after reports of an active shooter situation. Daily Express :: World Feed
Illinois bloodbath: US shooting in crowd of 200 leaves several wounded
A DEADLY shooting has broken out in Illinois leaving several people seriously injured in the early hours of Sunday in the US city of Peoria. Daily Express :: News Feed
Five DEAD in Illinois workplace MASSACRE – Five police officers also injured
FIVE people were shot dead and several others injured during an attack by a gunman at an industrial park in Illinois, local police reported. Daily Express :: World Feed
Ivanka Trump shares snaps of loving father-daughter trip to Illinois with Donald Trump
IVANKA TRUMP holds a key position in her father Donald Trump’s administration, being senior adviser to the president. Combining work with some quality father-daughter time, Ivanka and Donald visited a manufactures in Illinois. Daily Express :: Style Feed
Illinois Dumps PARCC Testing in Favor of SAT
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) Illinois has decided to do away with the Partnership for the Achievement of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test and instead will be giving its high school students a redesigned SAT, according to the Illinois State Board of Education’s (ISBE) announcement. Eliminating the PARCC assessment is being explained to the […]
Palatine, Illinois Parents, ACLU Push for Inclusive Transgender Policies
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) A group of parents and students from the Palatine, Illinois-based Township High School District 211 are calling for the complete integration of transgender students, including bathroom and locker room access. The suburban district has played a central role in the national debate on the issue. Although the district decided under pressure from federal […]
Illinois Ends Legislative Session Without Budget, Education Plan
(Photo: Joe Lewnard, Daily Herald) The Chicago state Senate has rejected Gov. Bruce Rauner’s (R) and House Speaker Mike Madigan’s (D) request to pass a makeshift budget and has voted against a competing financial plan written by Democratic leaders. Tina Sfondeles reports for the Chicago Sun-Times that there was not even a decision on how […]
Illinois House Moves Timely Higher Ed Funding Bill Forward
(Photo: Daniel Schwen, Creative Commons) A $ 600 million bill aimed at keeping Illinois’ universities and community colleges in operation until the new academic year received swift bipartisan support in the House, passing on a 106-2 vote on Friday morning. Now it heads back to the Illinois Senate. But when Illinois House members were preparing for a […]
Illinois Legislature Considering Making Education a ‘Fundamental Right’
(Photo: Pixabay, Creative Commons) The state of Illinois may change its constitution to state that education is a “fundamental right” in place of a “primary responsibility” — and the change would result in the state’s responsibility becoming the provision of sufficient funding for schools rather than adequate financing being only a goal. The amendment to the state constitution would […]