ICEARY

Legislative Information

**BREAKING NEWS*

FUNDING INFORMATION:

TAOEP:
FY10 Appropriation
$18,070.3
FY11 Board Recommendation
$18,070.3
FY11 Board Allocation to Recommendation
$14,059
-22.2% (June 24 it was -40%)

RSSP
FY10 Appropriation
$16,682
FY11 Board Recommendation
$16,682
FY11 Board Allocation to Recommendation
$9,341.9
-56% (June 24 it was -60%)

Please take a moment to read Supt. Koch’s message on the ISBE website and click on the budget webpage.

Thank you. Deb, ICEARY Legislative Committee Co-Chair

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Your ICEARY legislative committee is hard at work to provide you with up-to-date information about happenings in the Illinois legislature. Click <here> for minutes of their last meeting held March 23, 2009.

Not sure what region you are? Check out our membership page!

ICEARY encourages everyone to contact their legislators. State Senators and Representatives will listen to their constituents! Make sure to add your name and address in the letter and envelope. By including names (personal and/or school) and addresses, the legislators will be able to identify with constituents in their district. Please send your letters to both their office in the local precinct and Springfield. Need a sample letter to get you started? Check these out!!

TALKING POINTS TO USE WHEN VISITING WITH LEGISLATORS Need some help contacting your legislators? Check out the legislative website at http://www.ilga.gov/

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Looking for an EASY thing to get your parents' input for legislators? Here's a sample form used by one RSSP to get their parents comments on paper.

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ICEARY Legislative Committee

Debra Harriman - Chair

Region 1 - Natalia Szymczak

Region 2 - Ken Peterson & Todd Whitaker

Region 3 - Pat DalSanto & Jeff May

Region 4 - Janet Kacvinski

Region 5 - Steve Breese & Bonnie Malchow

Region 6 - Sue Long

Region 7 - Julie Wollerman & Deb Harriman, Legislative Chairperson

Region 8 - Dorothy Roesch & Elaine Parker, ICEARY President

Lobbyist - Maureen Mulhall

Chart of Chronic Truancy and Truancy Rates for Illinois - click <here>

Your committee is keeping an eye on the following legislative happenings:

List of bills currently being tracked by ICEARY - click <here>.
Our new budget - check out page 114-116. RSSP is level funded. Funding for TAOEP is split between state funds and federal recovery funds. Budget available at http://budget.illinois.gov.
Proposal for major changes to the state pension systems INCLUDING TRS.
HB1350 which redefines the "disruptive student". Check it out www.ilga.gov

Mark your calendar!

ICEARY Conference 2011

March 10 & 11, Bloomington

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Read the latest edition of
the Coalition Chronical E-newsletter.

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Download the FY10 RSSP Directory <here>.

Link for the TAOEP Directory http://www.taoep.net/Directory.htm

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Today's Words of Wisdom

I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or deescalated and a child humanized or de-humanized.

--Dr. Haim Ginott