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March 20 Tour | entre horizontesMarch 21 School Leader Support GroupMarch 25 Diaper Brackets for GoodMarch 27 Tour | entre horizontesMarch 31 Sensory-Friendly Morning
Illinois education advocates and lawmakers are asking for more state funding to support migrant students enrolled in public schools.
Supporters say a proposed change to the city’s real estate transfer tax would raise up to $100 million annually for a variety of efforts tackling homelessness. Critics worry it would create a political ‘slush fund.’
Illinois is planning to have 11th graders take the ACT next spring, after almost a decade of using the SAT.
The public meetings are part of the district’s new Black Student Success Working Group, which CPS created to provide recommendations for improving Black children’s outcomes.
Two bills filed in Springfield would let local school councils decide whether to keep school resource officers and would halt major changes to selective-enrollment schools.
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