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Recently, the Illinois State Board of Education voted to raise the cut scores used to determine whether elementary and middle school students are meeting State Standards on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test administered in early March. A student’s score on the ISAT assessment is used to classify that student’s achievement level into one of four categories: academic warning, below standards, meets standards or exceeds standards. As a result of this action, students will have to achieve a higher score to meet standards this spring than they did in the past. The ISBE has posted a description of the reasoning behind raising the cut scores that can be found online (http:// www.isbe.net/assessment/ htmls/isat-cut-scores13.htm). The collective results of ISAT scores in a school are used to determine if that school is making Adequate Yearly Progress as described in the federal legislation known as No Child Left Behind. As a result of these changes, the percentage of students in the “meets” and “exceeds” categories used to determine if a school is making AYP will decrease for all Illinois elementary and middle schools. Unless Illinois is granted a waiver from U.S. Department
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To the editor: A fellow artist sent me the Jan. 22 Daily Herald article titled “Lombard trustee touches up incomplete mural of historic sites.” I recognized the painting as one done by Vern Milem, a distinguished Lombard artist and former dean of the Chicago Academy of Finer Arts and former president of the Chicago Artist’s Guild. He taught various art classes in the surrounding communities over the years and was well known as “Mr. Vern.” Many of his murals are displayed throughout the community. The mural is obviously not a copy since in 1983 I don’t think it was common to copy artwork that size. From the view of a professional artist, I was shocked to read nothing of Trustee Laura Fitzpatrick’s legal obligation to obtain written permission from the artist’s heirs before altering his work. All major art schools teach us that our work is protected by copyright law even 70 years after we die. Artist organizations such as the Graphic Artists Guild and the National Cartoonists
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