The progress in diversifying the teacher work force is alarming legislators and others, and the Legislature in the past session passed a bill setting up a special commission to study the issue of minority teacher hiring.
In an attempt to appease Rauner while also backing him into a corner, the Senate in the final minutes of the spring session passed a stand-alone K-12 bill, but it increased school funding by an astounding $900 million.
Even the main legislative goal for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) this session, passing an education bill that promotes the teaching of patriotism in schools (a long-time obsession of cultural conservatives), looks like not passing in time.
The 40th Congress's lame duck session passed the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed that the right to vote could not be restricted because of race; Sherman joined the two-thirds majority that voted for its passage.
The best case (Bowles is optimistic, I'm a little less so) is that the lame-duck session passes a bipartisan plan that actually helps the country out of its enduring recession.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has at least one non-negotiable item on his wish list for the spring legislative session: passing legislative term limits.
In the session just passed, Congress failed to pass the Free Speech Protection Act.
I remember being in a jib session passing the meth pipe around, and there was a younger girl in the circle, half-shouting: "I like to get fucked up!" I cringed and mustered up some mild disgust, and thought to myself: "You have no fucking idea what you are messing with right now".
