The day after the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR) decided to adopt the Illinois State Board of Education’s new set of rules, “Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards,” state Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) sees the new standards as ‘radical’ and is certain Democrats won’t oppose them.
Caulkins said he doesn’t think that “the Democrats want to go against the governor.”
“They got this agenda that’s going and they allowed (these) very left-wing radical teaching standards, leadership standards, whatever you want to call it, a curriculum, to go through,” he told State Rep. Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville) during a virtual discussion with him.
These new rules, which will change how educators will be trained to teach Illinois students, will take effect in 2025.
“On 2025 is when the universities are going to have to teach this to prospective teachers, but it’s another day of politics ruling the day,” Caulkins said. “[It is] some ideology that’s now going to be foisted upon young teachers or people who want to be teachers and all that will creep into the classroom.
He is looking forward to stop this from happening.
“We’ve got some time to turn this around. We have an election in a couple of years and with a lot of hard work and some good candidates, hopefully, we’ll be able to attack this and turn this around,” Caulkins said.
