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Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford, a Democrat from Maywood, said the measure takes “a step toward ridding Illinois of the damaging policies and procedures built into our state’s systems of law and government that have created deep inequities and opportunity gaps in education for Black students.”
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She later explained she did not show her hand until the last minute to avoid having to submit them to public scrutiny and debate.
