Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Do you think the state of Illinois should require students to receive the Tdap booster shot in order to remain in school?
The Illinois State Board of Health has approved new recommendations from the Illinois Department of Public Health and The Illinois Department of Education to require all students in sixth grade through senior year of high school to have an additional vaccination. The students will now need to show proof of receiving the Tdap booster shot. The vaccine immunizes against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. “We’ve seen an increase in pertussis, or whooping cough, in Illinois during the last six years. Medical experts have found whooping cough has been on the rise in pre-teens and teens, indicating a waning immunity from infant and childhood immunizations,” said Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck in a press release…
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Both Cass School District 63 schools have once again been honored with the Illinois State Board of Education’s Academic Excellence Award.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
The following was submitted by Cass School District 63: The Cass School District 63’s Board of Education, District Administration and Building Administrators are extremely pleased to announce that Concord Elementary School and Cass Junior High School have just received the highest academic recognition possible from the Illinois State Board of Education for the fourth year in a row. Both Cass School District 63 schools have once again been honored with the Illinois State Board of Education’s Academic Excellence Award. This prestigious award places both of the District’s schools with an elite group of 438 statewide public schools. This group consists of 366 elementary, 67 junior high and six high schools out of well over 4,000 schools …
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Administrators shared frustrations about the metric during Tuesdays school board meeting.
Lace Elementary School students in certain subgroups saw improvement in their reading and math scores during 2011, boosting groups that failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress in 2010 into the target range. But despite those improvements, Lace again failed to make AYP because different subgroups fell below the standards this year. District 61 as a whole failed to make AYP for 2011, said Superintendent Bob Carlo when he presented the state report cards during Tuesday’s school board meeting. The district includes Lace, Eisenhower Junior High and Mark DeLay Elementary schools. AYP is based on testing that takes place in grades three through eight at Lace and Eisenhower. Eighty percent of the districts in Illinois failed to meet AYP in 2011, …
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Kate F.
6:07 am on Thursday, February 21, 2013
My daughter contracted whooping cough (pertussis) two years ago when she was a junior in high school...AND YES, she was vaccinated as a child. Unfortunately, given her age, pertussis was the last thing we suspected and didn't seek medical help until a month into it, when the nagging, sometimes breath-taking cough wouldn't go away. At that point, medication would not help. So she missed out on … more ›