A local school official is weighing in on state lawmakers’ proposal to replace the ISTEP with an “off-the-shelf” test. Continue reading
Eastern Pulaski School Superintendent Discusses Future of ISTEP
Representative Dermody Named Chair of Public Policy Committee
Dermody explained that the committee covers all of the pertinent items in the legislature.
State Democrats to Pay Fine
They went to Urbana, Illinois and now they are paying the price. In the most recent legislative session, Democrat Minority Leader, B. Patrick Bauer, of South Bend, led his fellow Democrats out of the state to, as he said, work on legislative bills that mattered to working people. The Republicans viewed it as a stall tactic to defeat bills offered by Governor Daniels and the Republican majority.
House Speaker, Brian Bosma, finally resorted to imposing a fine for every day the Democrats failed to appear in their house seats. 17th District State Representative Nancy Dembowski (D-Knox) was one of the members that followed the Democrat delegation to Urbana.
