SPRINGFIELD – Please attribute the following message to Karl Goeke, president of the Illinois Education Association:“Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and parsing its duties out to various agencies allows our neediest students and all students’ rights to be ignored. It’s insulting, frankly, that this plan would be presented during American Education Week, a week founded in 1919 by the National Education Association and the American Legion to seek ways to generate support for public education in honor of our country’s World War I soldiers.“This is the latest attack against our students. This administration has brought fear into our schools by sending ICE agents into our neighborhoods and schools, They’ve brought hunger into our classrooms and homes by cutting SNAP benefits and th

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