Fri
Mar 10 2006
03:24 pm
By: bizgrrl
Apparently in Illinois they have more money than they know how to spend. Here locally, Knox County wanted to get rid of driver's ed all together due to lack of funds.
Ramirez is blind, yet she and dozens of other visually impaired sophomores in Chicago schools are required to pass a written rules-of-the-road exam in order to graduate...
How do we get their kind of educational funding?
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