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New Education Laws (Part II) By Marcy Dutton & Phil Milsk Education Law, February 2008 The following legislative summary completes our comprehensive review of 2007 Illinois legislation concerning education.
New Education laws By Marcy Dutton & Phil Milsk Education Law, October 2007 This is the first of a two-part article on new education laws in Illinois.
Legislative summary By Marcy Dutton Education Law, April 2003 The Act provides that, beginning with the 2002-2003 school year, public elementary and secondary schools may incorporate activities to address intergroup conflict, with the objectives of improving intergroup relations on and beyond the school campus, defusing intergroup tensions, and promoting peaceful resolution of conflict.
School referenda: 61 pecent pass, 39 percent fail— March 19, 2002 By Marcy Dutton Education Law, May 2002 Results of the March 19 referenda on questions to raise school district tax rates and to issue bonds reveal that 69 of the 114 questions, or 61 percent, were successful and that 45 or 39 percent of the questions were defeated.
Illinois Association of School Administrators’ digest of education-related legislation that passed both houses of the Illinois General Assembly during 2001 By Marcy Dutton Education Law, December 2001 The bill allows school boards of districts that maintain grades 10 through 12 to award diplomas to honorably discharged veterans of World War II or the Korean Conflict who left high school before graduating in order to serve in the armed forces of the United States and who have not received a high school diploma.
New school laws 2001: a summary of education related Illinois legislation enacted in 2000* By Marcy Dutton Education Law, June 2001 The bill amends the Local Records Act to allow for the destruction or disposal of any original record that has been microfilmed. Currently,
New school laws 2001: A summary of education related Illinois legislation enacted in 2000 By Marcy Dutton & Belinda Alvarez Education Law, May 2001 The bill amends the Local Records Act to allow for the destruction or disposal of any original record that has been microfilmed. Currently, originals of digitized records can be so disposed.

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