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By Benjamin Cox on April 30, 2021 at 12:12pm
North Greene High School is expected to create a high school sport and co-op with another Greene County School.
North Greene School District has had a junior high cross country squad for the last few years, but the sport has never existed at the high school level. The board will need to officially create the sport at their next official meeting in May. The board had come to a general consensus at their April 21
st meeting on making the sport. The Greene Prairie Press reports that North Greene Superintendent Mark Scott says that an agreement with the North Greene Teacher’s Union also needs to be made over the coach of the sport. Currently, Track Coach and High School Girls P.E. Teacher Sydney Clanton would be in charge of the sport. Title IX would not come into question because cross-country would be considered a co-ed sport.
Foreign language, computer literacy among new school requirements . finding teachers may be issue
Samantha McDaniel Ogletree, Journal-Courier
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Addyson Avellone (middle) celebrates receiving her diploma with her Jacksonville High School classmates in 2019. New requirements approved by Gov. J.B. Pritzker will add foreign language and computer literacy studies to courses required for graduation in Illinois public schools.Journal-Courier
Several new graduation requirements have been mandated for Illinois high school students, including a foreign languages requirement that has educators worried.
House Bill 2170, signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, will require all graduating students to have completed two credits of a foreign language, complete two laboratory science courses and participate in computer literacy.