Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Provides that all scholarships administered by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission must be decoupled from any federal restriction that denies financial assistance to persons who have been convicted of drug offenses, and provides that anyone who has been denied financial assistance before the effective date of the amendatory Act is entitled to reapply for the scholarship if the denial was due to the federal restriction. Effective immediately.
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Congratulates Shirley Chapman, Principal of Esmond Elementary School in Chicago, on the occasion of her retirement.
Congratulates Dr. Stanley Strom, Assistant Principal of Morgan Park High School, on the occasion of his retirement.
Congratulates Charles Alexander, Principal of Morgan Park High School, on the occasion of his retirement.
Mourns the death of Alzata C. Pincham of Chicago on April 9, 2005.
Mourns the death of Alzata C. Pincham of Chicago on April 9, 2005.
Mourns the death of Sherlene Sherman.
Amends the Adoption Act. Provides that there is a rebuttable presumption that a parent is depraved if the parent has been convicted of 3 forcible felonies (instead of felonies) and that at least 3 of these convictions (instead of one of these convictions) took place within 5 years of the filing of the petition or motion seeking the termination of parental rights. Provides that a petition or motion seeking to terminate parental rights for lack of progress, in a 9-month period toward the return of the child, shall specify the 9-month period relied upon by the petitioner.
Mourns the death of Meshach Silas.
Amends the School Code. Under the K-3 class size reduction grant program, provides that if the State Board of Education determines that a school is using funds awarded under the program for purposes not authorized by the program, then the school district shall forfeit an amount of its total State aid allocation that equals the amount of funds used for unauthorized purposes.