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Citing concerns over declining academic performance for black students in Champaign Unit 4 schools, some community members plan to ask the district to create a new charter school in north Champaign. Illinois Public Media’s Christine Herman learned more from steering committee member Nathaniel Banks.
The union representing graduate employees at the University of Illinois’ Urbana campus is going on strike. That announcement came Sunday from the Graduate Employees Organization, after a five-hour negotiating session with a federal mediator failed to produce a contract agreement.
Governor Bruce Rauner said in his budget address this month that the key to helping businesses in Illinois is cutting taxes and red tape, and boosting training for workers. He repeated that theme in a visit to a Champaign manufacturing facility on Friday.
One week after a mass shooting at a south Florida high school that killed 17 people, Governor Bruce Rauner says he favors a bipartisan examination of ways to prevent such shootings in Illinois.
On The 21st: We talk about the new documentary, "Shot in the Dark," which follows young basketball stars from Orr Academy on the West Side of Chicago. We also hear about an event at the University of Illinois this weekend that is re-igniting a 50 year old discussion on campus. And, we continue our series of gubernatorial candidate interviews today with Bob Daiber.
