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By Fran Eaton
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04.14.25
According to the 2024 Illinois Report Card, chronic truancy—defined as missing more than 1 percent but less than 5 percent school days without a valid excuse—stood at 25.7% statewide, slightly up from 25.1% in 2023. Since 2022, Illinois allows five excused mental health days without a doctor’s note, but unexcused absences still trigger truancy warnings...
By David E. Smith
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04.12.25
Frustrated with persistent opposition to HB 2827, "The Homeschool (Registration) Act," State Representative Terra Costa Howard (D-Lombard) took approximately three minutes on Friday morning to gripe about why she isn't going to relent on pushing her bill.
By Alex Newman
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04.11.25
As government schools continue to fail students, home education has become increasingly popular. Here's how you can do it with your children.
By Walker Wildmon
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04.11.25
When God designed the family, it wasn’t a haphazard or random design. He had a purpose in mind for the family and the role it would play in the unfolding of His plan for humanity.
By Fran Eaton
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04.10.25
Wednesday morning, State Representative Terra Costa-Howard (D-Lombard) brought before the Illinois House’s Education Policy Committee an amendment to her “Anti-Homeschool Act’ that would - for the first time - require Illinois homeschooling families to register their students with the state.
By Ecce Verum
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04.09.25
In a recent interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, Baier asked Musk what the biggest thing was that keeps him up at night.
By Thomas Hampson
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04.08.25
Over the last fifty years, there has been very little change in the approach to protect children from child sexual predators, which is either to lock them up or treat them and hope they become cured. Neither approach works.
By Kathy Valente
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04.07.25
While emails have some effect, personal visits are the most effective, followed by handwritten letters and phone calls. Next week all state reps are in their district offices. It's a great time to make an appointment with them now! We urge you to make calls and email them also.
By David E. Smith
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04.07.25
George Barna's latest research, which was primarily conducted through the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, provides a detailed examination of the state of biblical worldview among American Christians as of early 2025.
By David E. Smith
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04.05.25
In various media interviews, State Representative Terra Costa Howard (D-Lombard) has repeatedly claimed that there are no regulations in Illinois for homeschoolers. This is not true. Moreover, she has repeatedly suggested that state lawmakers “have to do something to make sure that kids are receiving an education,” yet year after year public school systems miss the academic mark for a majority of their students.
