Rep. Paul Jacobs | Facebook
Rep. Paul Jacobs | Facebook
State Rep. Paul Jacobs (R-Carbondale) said the new set of standards created by the Illinois State Board of Education and approved by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, the 'Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards,' is “a rule rather than a law.”
“Maybe we could get together and do some laws instead of just usurping our power and authority and letting all the other groups take care of it,” Jacobs stated in a Facebook Live discussion. “But, you know, JCAR did a 6-6, there are six Republicans and six Democrats, and any time it's a split 6-6 it will go, the rule is valid, and you know we had to have two Democrats to go along with it and we just didn’t.”
Jacobs said it was a decade ago when people were coming to Illinois because of a good education system, different from what it is at present.
“I can't help but think that the teachers fear that they're going to have to be renewing their licenses and they're going to be reviewed on activism rather than their ability to get kids to be able to pass math and English... all the things that are important, science, etc.”
He argued that "We don't need to spend time on progressivism and activism it's just the wrong thing. Personally, I want to be able to go out, and hopefully, we can maybe change some things with laws or elections.”
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