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Rauner visits NIU class Gov. hopeful gives advice, touts pro-business agenda By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – After learning how Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner became a wealthy venture capitalist, Northern Illinois University student Kurt Hilsgen said he was leaning toward voting Republican in November. Rauner, a Winnetka venture capitalist aiming to unseat Gov.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner speaks to junior and senior students studying entrepreneurship Wednesday in Barsema Hall at Northern Illinois University.
Pat Quinn, spent more than an hour talking to NIU juniors and seniors studying entrepreneurship Wednesday. Rauner talked about his former venture capital firm, GTCR, and offered advice about what not to invest in, places such as mom-and-pop businesses that rely on cash and have heavy competition. Although he spent most of
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Eighth-grade social studies and science teacher Roger Christensen helps Clinton-Rosette Middle School students with questions Tuesday about their project of why studying history is important while using their school-issued Chromebooks.
Tech presence grows in classrooms Schools embracing tablets and laptops By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com DeKALB – Give Chynna Anthony a choice for her social studies research and she’ll pick her Chromebook laptop over a seven-year-old textbook every time. Anthony is one of some 500 eighth-grade students in DeKalb District 428 schools who have been
issued a laptop that they take home and bring to school every day. The Chromebooks, essentially thin web-driven laptops, are used in most of the students’ classes. “It’s easier to relate to this technology,” Anthony, 13, of DeKalb, said. “I think it’s easier because the textbooks are old.” School districts throughout DeKalb County either have launched or considered offering socalled “one-to-one” technology programs that pair every student with a laptop or tablet. Before districts can deploy their programs, technol-
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ogy staff have to train students and teachers how to use the technology to bolster education. As part of a pilot one-to-one technology program District 428 launched this school year, eighth-graders at Clinton Rosette and Huntley Middle School have
their own Chromebook. Meanwhile, 300 students at Lincoln Elementary School each have their own tablet computers.
Preparing for technology District leaders didn’t just hand over the devices to teachers and wish them luck. Teachers went through three solid days of training over the summer and the district hired two instructional coaches to support and develop the program throughout the year.
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New push in Illinois for birth control By CARLA K. JOHNSON The Associated Press CHICAGO – Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration wants to double down on long-acting birth control methods for the poor in an effort to save taxpayer money on unplanned pregnancies, a strategy that is raising concern among Catholic health care systems. Officials with the Illinois Medicaid program plan to increase payments to doctors and clinics for methods such as intrauterine devices, using an approach advocates say could save millions of dollars. “We could really show some very dramatic results, including cost savings results,” said Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services Director Julie Hamos. The department wants comments on an 11-point plan by Sept. 15. The plan would require Catholic health systems, which run the only hospitals in some low-income neighborhoods, to tell the state annually how they refer women elsewhere for services they won’t provide. Members of the Illinois Catholic Health Association worry that will force them out of the Medicaid program, said the group’s executive director Patrick Cacchione. The group represents about 18 percent of the hospitals in Illinois. Catholic hospitals don’t provide birth control, relying on state law to shield them from violating church beliefs. But, Cacchione said, that wasn’t enough to stop Illinois from ending contracts with Catholic groups for foster care in 2011 over the practice of referring gay couples to other agencies. The Catholic groups had refused to recognize the state’s civil union law. After dropping a lawsuit, the Catholic groups now are essentially out of the foster care business, he said. “Will they say you can’t contract with Medicaid [without an adequate referral plan]?” Cacchione asked. The state will work with “all providers to make sure they have some sort of referral plan so patients can get the contraceptive services they seek,” said department spokeswoman Joanne von Alroth, acknowledging Illinois can’t legally require any provider to refer a patient for birth control elsewhere. Medicaid pays for 94 percent of the state’s births to teenage mothers and 54 percent of all the state’s deliveries. About one-third of the state’s 3 million Medicaid recipients are women and girls of childbearing age, between 13 and 49 years old.
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