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special ed Area districts unhappy with state board’s action By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com
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Co-owner of VapeTech Inc. Damion Clai exhales vapor Friday inside his Huntley store. Clai says his products are a safer and more effective way to ingest nicotine. Clai said some of his products may include propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin and liquid nicotine.
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Near unanimous opposition from teacher unions and parents recently foiled a state board’s effort to eliminate classroom restrictions on special education students and hand more control to local school districts. The proposal would have allowed districts to determine for the first time in more than three decades how many special education students are placed in general education classrooms. The Illinois State Board of Education, however, pulled the idea in a meeting last week after unions such as the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the Chicago Teachers Union feared that local districts would use the new authority to increase class sizes and overcrowd classrooms.
“We have worked for many months now to find a compromise, and one just could not be found prior to this board meeting.” Mary Fergus Illinois State Board of Education spokeswoman “We have worked for many months now to find a compromise, and one just could not be found prior to this board meeting,” ISBE spokeswoman Mary Fergus said. The state education board received nearly 6,000 public comments on the rule change. More than 90 percent of the
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By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com Suburban smokers who have ditched the Marlboro Man for the electronic cigarette won’t face smoking bans like those recently passed by major cities such as Chicago and New York anytime soon, area experts and business owners said. Depending on future research studies, states and cities – small and large – eventually could start enacting prohibitions that outlaw electronic cigarettes in the same ways as traditional smokes. “E-cigarettes are still in its infancy,” said John Nothdurft, government relations director for the Heartland Institute. “Big cities are open to heavy-handed regulations, but I don’t think the suburbs are as quick to jump on the regulatory bandwagon.” The Heartland Institute, a free-market policy think tank based in Chicago, was one of the many groups to criticize Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago aldermen for enacting a smoking ban earlier this month that prohibits e-cigarettes in
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Various sizes of electronic cigarettes are seen on display Friday inside VapeTech in Huntley. The store offers five different strengths of nicotine, designed to wean smokers off of the traditional cigarette. Some of the liquids contain no nicotine.
Sample of e-cigarette regulations around the state n Chicago recently passed a smoking ban that prohibits e-cigarettes in bars, restaurants and most other indoor public places. n Illinois already banned the sale of the alternative tobacco product to children. n Huntley village officials want to amend the local ordinances on tobacco to include provisions on kids caught possessing e-cigarettes.
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“What it means for a lot of businesses is that they’re forced to operate entirely in cash,” said Taylor West, deputy director of the National Cannabis Industry Association in Washington. “That’s not just the sales side. It also
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WOODSTOCK More than 100 people sat in on forums for District 200 superintendent finalists last week, questioning them on topics from their long-term vision of the district to their experience with unions, district officials said. The board will meet to discuss the candidates Sunday night and could make a final decision soon. For more, see page B1.
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SPRINGFIELD – People who buy medical marijuana in Illinois might find out it’s cash-only. Even though lawmakers and Gov. Pat Quinn approved last summer the use of cannabis for certain medical conditions, selling and buying it remains a federal offense. So dispensaries set up to distribute it may not be able to open bank accounts or get a line of credit, according to the Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises newspapers in a report Saturday.
Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill last summer that permitted the use of cannabis for certain medical conditions.
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