Articles by Fran Eaton
By Fran Eaton
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04.14.25
According to the 2024 Illinois Report Card, chronic truancy—defined as missing more than 1 percent but less than 5 percent school days without a valid excuse—stood at 25.7% statewide, slightly up from 25.1% in 2023. Since 2022, Illinois allows five excused mental health days without a doctor’s note, but unexcused absences still trigger truancy warnings...
By Fran Eaton
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04.10.25
Wednesday morning, State Representative Terra Costa-Howard (D-Lombard) brought before the Illinois House’s Education Policy Committee an amendment to her “Anti-Homeschool Act’ that would - for the first time - require Illinois homeschooling families to register their students with the state.
By Fran Eaton
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02.27.25
As of this week, 15 Illinois House members are willing to sign onto the 45-page legislation and support an unprecedented attack on parental rights. HB 2827 would diminish homeschool freedoms in the state.
By Fran Eaton
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10.04.24
When Illinois voters make their candidate selections on the November 5, 2024, election ballot, they will also be asked their opinions on three advisory questions:
By Fran Eaton
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12.12.23
According to a series in the Washington Post, parents choosing to teach their children reading, writing, and 'rithmetic at home rather than sending them to the school down the street is a phenomenon that is worthy of in-depth research and front-page coverage.
By Fran Eaton
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03.26.22
In February, a state-operated Wisconsin school district held an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion professional development session that included in its slide presentation a stunning warning to teachers: Parents don’t have a right to know how the children they brought into...
By Fran Eaton
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03.19.22
As incomprehensible to average Americans as it may seem, three stories about government school students facing disciplinary actions for expressing their Christian faith were featured in Christian media publications over the past few months...
By Fran Eaton
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03.01.22
When a pupil’s name has been added to government school rolls, school officials are by law responsible for knowing why that pupil is no longer regularly attending until that child’s name is removed from government school attendance rolls. You'll see why it's important to name your home school.
By Fran Eaton
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02.25.22
Illinois prisoners should have the right to vote, a powerful lobbying group is arguing to the Illinois General Assembly. The effort nearly progressed in late January 2022, when the measure failed in the Illinois House by three votes.
If made...
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Fran Eaton
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04.22.15
Over this past weekend, Christians were shot and killed, beheaded and drowned because they refused to abandon their faith in the face of venom-filled Muslim jihadists.
In one case, twelve Christians were thrown overboard to their deaths in the Mediterranean...
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Fran Eaton
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03.12.15
Illinois doctors, nurses and medical personnel could be forced to make ethical choices between serving God and obeying the State with a bill being considered in the Illinois Senate.
Imagine for an instance that you’re a neurologist, and a patient...
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Fran Eaton
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02.04.15
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 239-186 to repeal Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act with no Democrat votes in support. Three Illinois Republicans sent out explanations for their votes immediately after casting them.
Illinois U.S. Representative Bob Dold (IL-10) was...
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Fran Eaton
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01.22.15
In 2000, the U.S. Census showed Illinois with 12,419,293 residents. Ten years later, the number of Illinois residents had grown by 411,339 to 12,830,632. The latest estimate for July 2014 is 12,880,580 – four years, and the amount of growth...
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Fran Eaton
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01.16.15
Every year in America, more than 18,000 perfectly healthy babies – developed enough to feel pain and, in many cases, survive outside the womb – are brutally killed in their mother’s wombs.
Eighteen thousand.
Can you imagine the public outrage...
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Fran Eaton
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12.17.14
Anyone browsing social media or watching network news is likely to be familiar with #BlackLivesMatter, #ICantBreathe or #HandsupWalkOut. They are terms that express the angst fueling a continuing clash between minority protesters and law enforcement after the tragic deaths of...
