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Julia Strehlow of the Chicago Children's Advocacy Center speaks about the REACH Act to members of the Illinois House committee for curriculum and policies in elementary and secondary education. A bill requiring updated sex education standards in Illinois public schools has advanced out of the Elementary and Secondary Education Committee on School Curriculum and Policies in the Illinois House. The vote fell along party lines. If the Responsible Education for Adolescent and Children's Health Act, or the REACH Act, becomes law, Illinois would join 30 other states already requiring sex ed. The ...

Committees dealing with mental health and addiction met in both the Illinois House and Senate Friday to discuss a new crisis born from the COVID pandemic.

Rep. Deb Conroy said the isolation and loss of normalcy caused by the pandemic has exacerbated the prevalence of drug abuse and mental illness, which she says are the same

Suburban lawmakers split on party lines on requiring protocols for awareness and prevention of youth suicide in K-12 schools. Local Republicans worried the legislation would add liability to school districts, while suburban Democrats backed the legislation unanimously.

Proposed legislation to curb the use of restraint and isolation as a form of punishment in Illinois public schools has been delayed after some lawmakers on a heavily suburban-influenced House education committee raised concerns.