Breaking: ISBE pulls class size limits off their agenda again. Good work.

The Chicago Teachers Union’s Kristine Mayle is reporting that the proposal to remove special education class size limits has once again been pulled from the agenda of the Illinois State Board of Educatiion. They were planning to address the issue tomorrow.

But a huge mobilization of emails and phone calls by parents, teachers and special education advocates across the state appears to have had impact.

And this just in from Bev Johns:

ISBE postpones special ed class size discussion.

Will ISBE hold a special meeting to discuss/act
on it later this month or early in February
or is the proposal dead as the rule must be
FINAL (go through JCAR without a JCAR prohibition)
and be published in the Illinois Register by March 8.

Just posted on the ISBE website:

NOTE: Part 226 (Special Education) (class size/composition) WILL NOT be discussed at the January Board Meeting.

THANK YOU for all the contacts you made.

YOU made the difference.

Bev Johns, Chair
Governmental Relations
Illinois Council for Exceptional Children (ICEC)