The Illinois Federation of Teachers, the parent union of the Chicago Teachers Union, should be worried about the three Rs, but its main R is “radicalism.” Transgender restrooms, defunding the police and getting rid of charter schools top its radical agenda.

Governor JB Pritzker has signed House Bill 2488 into law, amending the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003 by removing references to a federally-mandated program that required employers to provide wage data to the federal government.

The plan requires pharmacies to sell sterile syringes and needles if they are in stock. Sponsors said pharmacists would be able to use their professional judgement to sell the equipment to any customer for proper utilization or administration of medications.

“You preferred secrecy and lies. You preferred Mr. Madigan,” U.S. District Judge Manish Shah said in handing down the sentence Thursday afternoon. “You chose his way, and the consequences of that choice are yours to bear.”

This week, Gov. JB Pritzker was asked about whether Illinois will opt in. “So we’re going to have to look at whether or not we implement a program that will be good for all students and all families that have students in schools, and not just a program about private schools and sometimes religious schools,” Pritzker said.

“I want to remind you that large states have a higher error rate than smaller states. States with a larger SNAP distribution tend to have higher error rates because, unfortunately, the way you reduce the error rate is often by reducing the number of SNAP recipients overall, not just by addressing the errors,” said Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. “We’re obviously more concerned about making sure families have the nutrition and food they need than some other states are.” In fiscal 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Illinois’ error rate was 11.56 percent.

Illinois became the first state in the nation to require public high schools to teach media literacy, which can include lessons on accessing information, analyzing and evaluating media messages, reflecting on how media affects the consumption of information and triggers emotions, and how to engage in thoughtful conversations with people using facts and reason. The state-mandated lessons began with the 2022-2023 school year.

A coalition of natural gas and construction groups is suing the village in federal court on the grounds the ban usurps federal authority. It is also hostile to consumers by taking away choice, increasing demand on a stretched electrical grid, and adding significant costs to build and operate a home.

According to U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s office, the average American adult uses about 12 personal care products a day, resulting in exposure to an average of 168 unique chemicals.

“Citizens are already seeing the electricity price increases because of these failed policies.”

Readers marvel at what possible strategy could motivate Springfield’s fiscal malpractice.

“CEJA in short was an audacious bid by a governor with presidential ambitions to boast the nation’s most progressive clean-energy statute. Now, CEJA’s mandates appear overly inflexible in light of legitimate concerns about whether enough power will be available during heat waves and cold snaps, especially once more of the many planned data centers — intensely power-hungry facilities — are built in Illinois.”

The new employee jobs target, according to the agreement with Colorado-based Infleqtion, is 36.