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Illinois Coalition of
Non-Public Schools Members
Ad Hoc Committee for Illinois Home Education
Agudath Israel of America Midwest Region
Alternative Schools Network
Archdiocese of Chicago (Catholic)
Associated
Talmud Torahs of Chicago
Association
of Christian Schools International
Association of Illinois Montessori Schools
Catholic Conference of Illinois
Christian Schools International
Countryside Montessori School - Northbrook
Deerfield Montessori Schools
Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America
Lake Michigan Association
of Independant Schools
Lutheran Schools Missouri Synod
Central Illinois District
Northern Illinois District
Southern Illinois
District
Seventh-Day Adventist
Illinois Conference
Seventh-Day Adventist Lake Region Conference
Solomon Schechter
Day Schools
St. Dominic School - Quincy
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
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Illinois Coalition of Non-Public Schools
 Did
you know private schools account for 25% of all
schools in the United States, 10% of all students
and 12% of all full time teachers?
Though 79% of private schools in America have some
religious affiliation, there is an enormous amount
of diversity across the spectrum of private school
type.
Illinois is a superb example
of this diversity. Nearly twenty different private
school groups exist in Illinois comprising over
14% of the state's student population. One
in seven students in Illinois attends a nonpublic
school. Over 325,000 students from tax-paying
families in nearly 1,500 nonpublic schools choose
to attend a nonpublic school.
The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES),
working in concert with the U.S. Department of Education
USDOE, defines nonpublic schools as schools that
are "owned and governed by entities that are independent
of any government - typically, religious bodies
or independent boards of trustees."
 Like
public school constituents, nonpublic school constituents
are tax-paying citizens who are committed freedom,
the value of every child, quality education and
the nurture of good citizenship.
Looking for a nonpublic school?
This useful tool, provided by the National Center
for Educational Statistics, allows a user to locate
a private school throughout the USA using a variety
of search criteria.
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/
Find out how your elected officials voted on key
Congressional legislation affecting private education.
Maintained by the Council for American Private Education.
http://capwiz.com/cape/home/
To learn more about benefits available to private
school students, teachers and other personnel under
NCLB, visit:
www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/nclbinfo.html
Illinois Nonpublic School Key Links:
Illinois
State Board of Education
ISBE Nonpublic School homepage
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Link to CAPE’s “Benefits of Private Education”
brochure:
http://www.capenet.org/benefits4.html
Federal Nonpublic School Key Links:
U.S.
Department of Education (USDOE)
Office of Nonpublic Schools, USDOE
Council for American Private Education (CAPE)
National
Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
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