News & Announcements

The IEA’s Invest In Excellence initiative needs your assistance. A legislative hearing on school funding, sponsored by the House Education Committee, is scheduled for the evening of October 6 at Lincolnwood City Hall.  We are attempting to locate and communicate with those who are willing to stand out in front of City Hall displaying a large banner “Fair Funding for All Public Schools” for perhaps an hour on the evening of the hearing.  Read more...

Ethics topped the agenda for this week’s legislative activities, along with action to cover some of the holes in the state budget.  more…

On Sept. 23, 1983, Gov. Jim Thompson signed the Collective Bargaining Act (CBA), giving Illinois public education employees a more level playing field in negotiations with school districts that had become used to playing hardball against their teachers and support professionals. It is worth noting that CBA made strikes a rare event in Illinois, because districts were no longer able to easily bully employees into taking unfair offers.  View an excerpt from the video "Looking Back, Moving Forward"