A constituent of State Representative Dave Severin, who has been teaching barber and cosmetology classes for 30+ years, was looking to get a cross-classification into a different specialty teaching.
But, she was told that in order to get that new specialty she would have to take the classes that she was teaching.
According to the Benton republican, 30 years of teaching a class was apparently not good enough to claim that she would pass her own class.
So the instructor reached out to Severin to see if there could be an end-around for teachers of courses to be exempted from having to take the courses they teach due to experience in the field.
HB4570, which helps make that change was given final approval in the Illinois House of Representatives Tuesday and now moves on to the Senate for consideration.
