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A proposal to increase high school graduation requirements was passed by an Illinois Senate committee today.

The bill would require students to take additional math, science, English and writing courses before graduating.

Senator Miguel del Valle (me-GELL’ del VAH’-yay) says many schools meet the standards already, but it is still important to strengthen them.

The bill is part of the education plan Governor Rod Blagojevich (bluh-GOY’-uh-vich) announced last month. Blagojevich wants to raise standards and pay for it by letting riverboat casinos expand.

The measure approved by the Education Committee does not say how the state would pay for the new standards. It now goes to the Senate floor.

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Apr 12, 05 @ 2:20 pm

Comments

That’ll be a compelling stump speech:

“And we passed tough new standards, to make Illinois graduation requirements the 26th toughest in the nation.”

To quote Daniel Burnham:

“Think Big.”

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 12, 05 @ 3:29 pm
Education in Illinois is abymsal

I don’t even know how to spell abysmal

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Apr 12, 05 @ 6:56 pm
Can you say Much Ado about Nothing (NU-theen) and asinine (ASS-in-ein)???

Comment by Anonymous Wednesday, Apr 13, 05 @ 10:27 am
It won’t matter how much money and rhetoric you throw at education. As long as we have students who are constant real-timers and the desire to learn is stagnant, it will continue as it is. Even college students question how much work they have to do to “pass” the course. They don’t even consider A’s or B’s. Easy in, easy out = GIGO. It is not the lack of education that is the sin, it’s the lack of desire for education.

Comment by Xnewfie Saturday, Apr 16, 05 @ 5:45 am