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You can start scheduling immunizations and health screenings for your child for the 2015-16 school year. Students must have the following exams/immunizations before August 24, 2015, the first day of school. Students will not be allowed to attend school until these screenings are complete...

Dave Dahl -- Illinois Radio Network Another bill meant to improve education through setting goals is being introduced. The buzz-phrase is “evidence-based models” to be used, examining each of the state’s more than 800 school districts...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network It’s back to the drawing board on changing Illinois’ education funding formula. That outcome pleases Republican lawmakers in districts in the Chicago suburbs, such as State Rep. Ron Sandack (R-Downers Grove), as the proposed changes to the formula would have resulted in school districts in those areas receiving less state aid thanks to collecting more in prop

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network The Republican legislative leaders are sounding the alarm about what a change in the state’s school funding formula would mean for some districts. The proposal would base state funding to schools more on need...

What started out as an act of compassion has turned into a heated controversy.