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Enrollment numbers in Illinois public schools have declined each of the last eight years, while chronic absenteeism rates have risen dramatically. The 2023 Illinois Report Card showed a chronic absenteeism rate of 28.3 percent in public schools, up from 16.8 percent in 2018.
Shelby Doyle, is vice president of public awareness with the National School Choice Awareness Foundation. “Illinois is lagging behind its regional peers and the overall national average now on how many options it provides for families who want choices,” said Doyle.
The fire destroyed 60 high-priced EVs waiting to be shipped to customers. The cause is still unknown. This incident follows a fire last month in which three Rivian Amazon Electric Delivery Vans ignited at a fulfillment center in Texas.
The bill will also require the state Labor relation boards to submit regular reports to the state legislature, including explanations if timeliness goals are not met.
As was the case last year, some families are being offered $500 a month to transport their children to schools. But this year, the district is limiting this incentive to those it can not otherwise route and who live more than five miles from their placement. It is expecting 1,200 fewer students will qualify. That means some students and families who live closer to their school and don’t have routes are just out of luck.
Note: Headline should say far left’s philanthropy now dominating local news, as most of the examples in this forum show.
Burnett, who grew up at Cabrini-Green and served time in prison before getting into politics, was a new face to City Council during 1996’s Democratic National Convention. Now, he’s the council’s most tenured alderman and one of Chicago’s most powerful leaders. Both DNCs were held at the United Center in his ward.
Four to eight suspects are believed to be responsible for the burglaries, in which thieves entered the establishments and took ATMs, cash registers and merchandise.
Senate Republicans say if the staff succeeds in unionizing, Democrats will be put at a disadvantage because the super majority tends to put forward legislation last minute. So future union contracts might restrict staff’s ability to analyze the state’s budget at 2 a.m., which Republicans say Democrats do to avoid public scrutiny.
“Illinois and Chicago’s reputations as cesspools of government corruption are well earned. Chicagoans and Illinoisans tend to consume these stories indictment by indictment, conviction after conviction, sentencing after sentencing. It all can start to feel like background noise — as if journalists were covering yet another sorry baseball season on the North Side, South Side or (as this year) both sides at once.”
In the 17 states where Democrats boast a “trifecta”—control of the governorship and both legislative chambers—the share is 98%. In the 23 states with Republican trifectas, it’s 47%.
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“My first and most important job as the president of the Chicago Teachers Union is to create liberation and opportunity for every single student in CPS. I do not take that responsibility lightly, and it is why I am outspoken about the inequities that undercut our students’ and educators’ abilities to succeed, such as racism, privatization, austerity and gender inequality.”
Last weekend, at least 30 people were shot, five fatally, in gun violence across Chicago, police said.
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