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The scholarships were designed by Giannoulias as a public–private partnership, with the funding for the scholarships donated by a private firm at no cost to the state or taxpayers. [21] Giannoulias also developed the Cultivate Illinois Excellence in Agriculture scholarship in 2008.
In 2013, Representative Dunkin voted "yea" [7] to a plan that amended state employee pension plans by drastically reducing the constitutionally protected benefits of Illinois state employees in retirement. The Illinois Supreme Court ultimately found these legislative changes to be unconstitutional. [8]
In 2009 and 2010, Meeks worked to pass opportunity scholarships for children in Chicago's worst-performing public schools. This effort was supported by a bipartisan coalition of legislators and outside groups such as the Illinois Policy Institute. [20] In 2015, he was elected chairman of the Illinois State Board of Education, [21] serving until ...
Stephen Baskerville proposes "reasonable limits" on no-fault divorce when children are involved. [90] Some members of the FRM support the end of the no-fault principle in child custody and divorce decisions. [4] [106] [107] Some members of the fathers' rights movement state that the availability of divorce should also be limited. [4]
Chuck Gray, Secretary of State of Wyoming (2023–present) [59] Mark Hammond, Secretary of State of South Carolina (2003–present) [60] Christi Jacobsen, Secretary of State of Montana (2021–present) [61] Frank LaRose, Secretary of State of Ohio (2019–present) and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Ohio in 2024 [62]
Illinois’ new law, set to take effect next July, mirrors California’s Coogan Act, which was passed in 1939 to protect the earnings of child performers and has inspired similar laws in other ...
In 2014 the Chicago Sun-Times described the Clerk's office as "a 2,300-employee office, one of the last true bastions of political patronage in Illinois". [ 7 ] Beginning in August 2018, a federally-ordered monitor was appointed under to audit the hiring and employment practices of Brown's office in an effort to monitor the office's compliance ...
Snack foods, insta-meals, cereals, and drinks tend to come and go, but the ones we remember from childhood seem to stick with us. Children of the 1970s and 1980s had a veritable smorgasbord of ill ...