These education bills made it through the Illinois legislature – Chalkbeat Chicago

The bills that moved quickly through the House and Senate focused on challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic, such as a teacher shortage and mental health stresses on educators, and allowed Chicago principals to unionize. A flurry of bills that proposed restricting what the state board of education, the state department of public health, and the governor’s office could do during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as a number of curriculum transparency bills, did not make it past committee.