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The Illinois State Board of Education, or ISBE, approved a resolution endorsing the state superintendent s plan to require all districts to offer in-person learning in the fall. (Illinois State Board Of Education/via video)
SPRINGFIELD, IL The Illinois State Board of Education called for all schools to resume fully in-person learning in the fall.
At Wednesday s meeting, board members backed a resolution supporting a declaration by the state superintendent of education, who was granted authority last year to declare when remote or blended learning days are necessary.
During the public comment portion of the meeting, several parents spoke in opposition to the proposal. Some board members also expressed concerns about the wording of the resolution during a discussion before ultimately voting unanimously to approve it.
Shaping America s Education Agenda
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 06:00 PM
Shaping America s Education Agenda:
Pushing Boundaries
May 17, 2021, marks the 67th Anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, Brown vs. Board of Education, when the Supreme Court decided that school segregation was unconstitutional. This begs the question: Sixty-seven years later, are our schools really desegregated? The short answer is no. In fact, a 2019 study by the University of California, Los Angeles’ The Civil Rights Project and Penn State University’s Center for Education and Civil Rights highlights that intense levels of racial and economic segregation have been on the rise again since the 1990s.
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