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The IELRB, a five-member board that was created in 1983, views Illinois school boards and full-time educational employees as its stakeholders. The group of educational employees who are Board stakeholders is not limited to certified teachers; it also includes a wide variety of non-instructional school personnel.
The Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) is a state government agency that oversees higher education in the U.S. state of Illinois.The IBHE was created in 1961. [1] Since 2012 the IBHE also permits and oversees business schools and other vocational schools, which were formerly overseen by the Illinois State Board of Education.
The board sets educational policies and guidelines for public and private schools, preschool through grade 12. It analyzes the aims, needs and requirements of education and recommends legislation to the Illinois General Assembly and Governor for the benefit of the more than 2 million school children in the state. [1]
Homeschooling constitutes the education of about 3.4% of U.S. students (approximately two million students) as of 2012. [needs update] The number of homeschoolers in the United States has increased significantly over the past few decades since the end of the 20th century.
This is a list of school districts in Cook County, Illinois. This list includes school districts with any amount of territory within Cook County, even if the districts do not operate any schools nor have their administration buildings in Cook County. The list of districts includes: [1]
The Illinois Board of Higher Education is the administrative agency with responsibility for all higher education sectors in Illinois. As such, it approves the instructional programs, capital projects, and systemwide operating and capital budgets for the public community college system after action by the ICCB.
The Illinois State Superintendent of Education, often shortened to State Superintendent, is a statewide government office in the U.S. state of Illinois. The State Superintendent is nominated by the Governor of Illinois and serves at the pleasure of the Illinois State Board of Education. Since at least 2007, the superintendent is hired at the ...
As noted by Mark Hegener, then publisher of Home Education Magazine, "HSLDA used homeschooling families to jump strongly on the Federal side of the scale of State's rights vs. Federal rights. For homeschoolers this means someday, some poor federal bureaucrat is going to be stuck with the task of writing regulations which define homeschooling." [4]