Advocacy

Educator Spotlight: Liz Reyes, Elmhurst CUSD 205

2022-12-15T12:13:26-06:00

Over the past few months, the IRC has asked members of our community to nominate Illinois teachers working with multicultural, multilingual students who are going above and beyond, and now, we’re celebrating them and highlighting their work. Keep an eye out for these features in the coming months – and if you’d like to nominate someone, email leanet@cntrmail.org. Next up is Liz Reyes, a high school math teacher at York High School in Elmhurst. Says Becky Morales, who nominated her: “I wanted to let you know how awesome our EL Math teacher Liz Reyes is doing with our students. We teach at York [...]

IRC Stands With NEA in Support of the Social Security Fairness Act & Social Security 2100 Act

Lindsay Eanet2022-07-27T16:14:17-05:00

At the IRC, our mission is to equip teachers with resources and development to empower their students to succeed. As such, it is important to us to advocate for teachers and ensure they have what they need to thrive in an often challenging field, and that includes fair compensation and the benefits they are owed. As such, we are standing with the National Education Association in support of the Social Security Fairness Act and the Social Security 2100 Act. These proposed bills would eliminate the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision, two provisions that combined deprive more than 2.5 [...]