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- March 19, 2021
GOP members hope to block new Illinois teacher standards SPRINGFIELD — Republican Illinois state lawmakers are pushing back on proposed new standards for teachers and administrators that are scheduled for a hearing before a legislative rulemaking committee later this month. Supporters of the proposed “Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards” say they’re merely an attempt to
READ MOREIllinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is pictured at a Statehouse news conference in 2019. His office led negotiations on portions of a criminal-justice reform bill dealing with officer decertification. Capitol News Illinois SPRINGFIELD — A criminal-justice package that passed both chambers of the General Assembly last month contains provisions that would grant the state increased
READ MORE(The Center Square) – A bill that would allow victims in all personal injury and wrongful death cases to collect 9% interest on money they were awarded by a court starting when the incident took place is under fire. HB 3360 was designed to deter companies that are sued from stalling or delaying cases that
READ MOREPresident Biden said last Tuesday that his administration is already working on ordering more COVID-19 vaccine doses to increase the U.S. supply through this summer. But before that can happen, Pfizer and Moderna have to fulfill their commitments under their original federal supply contracts. Each company is responsible for supplying the U.S. government with 100
READ MORECopyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The U.S. is racing to vaccinate as many people as possible against COVID-19. About 31 million doses have been administered so far, which means the country still has a long way to go to contain the virus, and one limiting factor could be
READ MORE* Bloomberg… In Mississippi, an online vaccine registration system buckled in a sudden onslaught of traffic. Officials at a local health department in Georgia had to resort to counting every dose they receive before scheduling appointments. A $44 million national vaccine scheduling and tracking system is going largely unused by states. And California, Idaho and
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