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Engage your community with news from more than 5,500 public & private Illinois schools. We made the Beautiful Blogs to bring teachers, students, & parents together in an online community to share ideas and just blog about things that affect life in their schools.

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Active participation in school life could encourage others, including students, to write. Let our professional Web developers & journalists give teachers and parents back the time they need to do what they do best: help students learn! Blog today and get a community excited about school.

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Report: Stevenson HS in Lincolnshire will now search the cellphones of students suspected of drug activity. School officials have qualified immunity against 4th-Amendment claims if the search is justified.

 

See our report on cellphone law

Cellphone Search &
the 4th Amendment

Other News In Illinois Schools:

Like MD, governor wants to shift teacher pensions to districts (Feb. 3)

New law requires more detail on school report cards (Jan. 25)

Illinois State Board of Education seeks more money (Jan. 27)

ISBE, Atty Gen launch poster/media contest: Youth Digital Safety (Jan. 19)

Lucas Yelden’s Latest Movie Reviews:

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Rated R, Teens: F, Plot: B, Overall: D+)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Rated R, Teens: B+, Plot: A, Overall: A—)

Welcome to Voxitatis!

Mission:

To stimulate constructive dialog among students, schools, and members of the community, including parents, by providing comprehensive, accurate coverage of Illinois
K-12 schools, including academics, general news, fine arts, and athletics.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.  –Steve Jobs, education pioneer
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