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(The Center Square) – Starting Jan. 1, Illinois schools will be face new mandates and bans. State Sen. Rachel Ventura, D-Joliet, sponsored a bill requiring school districts to provide students ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those include some of the defining bills of the 2024 ...
(The Center Square) – Several new laws go into effect Jan. 1 that affect Illinois drivers. Among the nearly 300 new laws going into effect are updates to drivers’ education, including ...
Replaced the Adult Education Act and the National Literacy Act. Pub. L. 105–220 (text) 1998 Higher Education Amendments of 1998 Pub. L. 105–244 (text) 1998 Charter School Expansion Act of 1998: Amended the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to make charter schools eligible for federal funding. Pub. L. 105–278 (text) 1998
The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is a state of Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that makes a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections.
The civil rights movement brought about controversies on busing, language rights, desegregation, and the idea of “equal education". [1] The groundwork for the creation of the Equal Educational Opportunities Act first came about with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination and racial segregation against African Americans and women.
(The Center Square) – A handful of the nearly 300 new laws going into effect Jan. 1 impact parents. Senate Bill 3136 allows drug-addicted mothers, who give birth to babies whose toxicology ...
The Equality Illinois Gala, annually the largest LGBTQ event of its kind in the Midwest, is held every winter to celebrate the previous year's achievements for the Illinois LGBTQ community. The 2019 event celebrated Equality Illinois’ 25th Anniversary Jubilee Year and was expected to draw more than 1,400 guests, including nearly 100 public ...