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  2. Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board

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    The 18-member Board, created by the Illinois Police Training Act, has operated since 1965. Twelve of the 18 board members are appointed by the Governor of Illinois from various specified expertise subsets, and six ex-officio board members are executives of statewide, Cook County, and Chicago law enforcement. The Board oversees the training of ...

  3. In the United States, certification and licensure requirements for law enforcement officers vary significantly from state to state. [1] [2] Policing in the United States is highly fragmented, [1] and there are no national minimum standards for licensing police officers in the U.S. [3] Researchers say police are given far more training on use of firearms than on de-escalating provocative ...

  4. Illinois Standards Achievement Test - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) measured individual student achievement based on the Illinois Learning Standards. The results of this score were applied to the No Child Left Behind Act, to identify failing schools. The ISAT was retired as a state assessment tool.

  5. Police academy - Wikipedia

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    The exterior of the Michigan State Police Training Academy in Michigan, United States. A police academy, also known as a law enforcement training center, police college, or police university, is a training school for police cadets, designed to prepare them for the law enforcement agency they will be joining upon graduation, or to otherwise certify an individual as a law enforcement officer ...

  6. Common Core - Wikipedia

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    The Common Core State Standards Initiative, also known as simply Common Core, was an American, multi-state educational initiative begun in 2010 with the goal of increasing consistency across state standards, or what K–12 students throughout the United States should know in English language arts and mathematics at the conclusion of each school grade.

  7. List of colleges and universities in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Illinois Institute of Technology: $235 Illinois Wesleyan University: $270 Augustana College: $197 Columbia College Chicago: $180 Southern Illinois University Carbondale: $174 Concordia University Chicago: $165 Knox College: $160 Elmhurst University: $152 Illinois College: $147 Illinois State University: $129 Monmouth College: $127 North Central ...

  8. University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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    Maudelle Bousfield (AB 1906, mathematics and astronomy) - the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Illinois. St. Elmo Brady (MS 1914; PhD 1916, chemistry) - the first African-American to earn a doctoral degree in chemistry. Nancy Brinker (BA 1968, sociology) - founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

  9. School corporal punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Texas, teachers are permitted to paddle children and to use "any other physical force" to control children in the name of discipline; [15] in Alabama, the rules are more explicit: teachers are permitted to use a "wooden paddle approximately 24 inches (610 mm) in length, 3 inches (76 mm) wide and 0.5 inches (13 mm) thick." [16]