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IEA returning to Springfield this year for Lobby Day. May 15th. | Fred Klonsky

IEA returning to Springfield this year for Lobby Day. May 15th. | Fred Klonsky:


IEA returning to Springfield this year for Lobby Day. May 15th.

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Every once in a while it seems that somebody up there is listening.
Last year the IEA called off their annual Lobby Day – a day in which several thousand IEA members jam the Capitol and legislative offices to push for public education issues.
Why?
It is still a mystery to me.
They claimed it was because the Capitol was under construction.
But that simply wasn’t true.
We in the Park Ridge Education Association decided that we would do our own Lobby Day anyway. At huge