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Governor Pat Quinn Kicks-Off 2014-2015 School Year Governor Visits Students on Their First Day CHICAGO—On August 31St, Governor Pat English STATE OF ILLINOIS Governor’s Office Intergovernmental Affairs Newsletter SEPTEMBER 2014 IN THIS ISSUE Governor Pat Quinn Kicks-Off 2014-2015 School Year Governor Visits Students on their First Day CHICAGO—On August 31st, Governor Pat English. The seal will be placed on a student’s Quinn visited students at two Chicago Public academic transcript and diploma. Schools on their first day of school to wish all State Program of the Month: students in Illinois a happy and healthy year Illinois was the third state to pass legislation of learning. The Governor visited Vanderpoel offering a Seal of Biliteracy, joining California Illinois Century Network Elementary Magnet School and Schmid and New York. Illinois education officials Find out how you can connect your community to ultra- fast broadband internet and take advantage of the Elementary School on the south side of hope the seal will inspire students to pursue biliteracy, recognize students who excel in state’s massive investment in our network. Chicago. Today’s events are part of Governor Quinn’s agenda to give every child in Illinois language skills, and provide evidence of the opportunity for a high-quality education. these achievements to future employers and college admissions offices. “As we kick-off a new year of learning, I wish all our students across Illinois a happy and In the 2012-13 school year, Illinois enrolled healthy school year,” Governor Quinn said. more than 200,000 English Learner (EL) “There’s no more important investment than students, nearly 10 percent of the state’s an investment in our children’s education. As more than 2 million public school students. we work to try to bring classroom funding to While the majority of EL students attend the highest levels in Illinois history, it’s schools in Chicago and the collar counties important to give thanks to all our teachers and speak Spanish, EL students in Illinois who are helping to make a difference across speak more than 160 languages. Food Pantry Awareness Day our state.” Find out what you can do to bring awareness to the need Governor Quinn is committed to properly for food pantry donations in your area. Governor Quinn also announced that the funding education in Illinois in order to give Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is every child the opportunity for success. The moving forward with an initiative that aims Governor's budget blueprint includes a to promote mastery of two or more historic $6 billion increase in classroom languages. The state is among the first in the spending. Over the next five years, the Heading to the IML Conference? Governor’s plan would bring classroom country to allow school districts to award a Come check out a Friday session featuring State Seal of Biliteracy to students who funding to the highest levels in Illinois representatives from several state agencies who will be demonstrate a high level of proficiency in history.◊ talking about state programs that could benefit your one or more languages, in addition to community. 2 sejsfalek IN THIS ISSUE, CONT’D… Featured Newsroom Clips Giving you information on emerging issues affecting the State of Illinois. Program of the Month: GET CONNECTED! Illinois Century Network Expanding Broadband Internet Connectivity Across IL Contact your local Regional Technology Center Local governments have long pioneered Dark Fiber: Dark fiber services are available about connecting to the ICN. They’ll guide you through the process and work with you and the efforts to expand broadband availability and for sale along 1000 miles of network. The last mile provider to get connected. RTC staff competition. For more than a decade, they federal broadband grant supported the have relationships with all the last mile providers have tested public projects and public– installation of fiber optic cabling. Access is in your area, and most likely, the last mile private partnerships to deliver new available approximately every 1–3 miles provider is already connected to ICN, meaning to broadband services. As they look to the allowing access for easy interconnections. get you connected should be a breeze! Find your future, localities can work with the Illinois local RTC office contact details at Lit Fiber: Lit fiber services of 10Mb/s to www.illinois.net/ and don’t hesitate to call. Century Network (ICN) to bring high speed 10Gb/s and wave services of up to 40Gb/s are internet to their region. offered. Services are available around the The ICN is a high performance network state and pricing is not location dependent. comprising over 2000 miles of fiber optic cable built to meet the Internet and Intranet Other Services Include: Colocation, Point to needs of the educational, research, Point and Multipoint transport, redundant governmental and healthcare organizations Internet service and access to leading telco serving the citizens of Illinois. Broadband hotels in both Chicago and St. Louis. speeds have increased at least 10x and The ICN network is owned by the State of virtually unlimited bandwidth is available. As Illinois and managed by the Department of bandwidth demands increase, the ICN is Central Management Services. ICN there to support your community. objectives are to facilitate a broadband In 1999, ICN started as an education network connected Illinois. ICN staff operate and providing broadband services to schools and build fiber optic networks, and provide all community anchor institutions throughout necessary support functions including billing, Illinois. Over 6000 community anchor year round support and maintenance. institutions are connected. In addition the ICN network serves as an With the award of a federal grant in 2010 to Illinois local area network enabling deploy broadband into underserved and interconnectivity, resource sharing, and unserved areas of Illinois, ICN has upgraded access to instate content and cloud and expanded its network, moving from a resources. primarily leased network to a network owned See the following page for recent news on and managed by ICN. Following this the Illinois Century Network! upgrade, bandwidth services including dark fiber and lit fiber are now available to commercial service providers since 2013. 3 sejsfalek Governor Quinn Announces Completion of Cutting Edge Broadband Network $100 Million Illinois Century Network Construction Brings Ultra-Fast Access to Communities Across 55 Counties CHICAGO – Governor Pat Quinn today announced the completion of Richland, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Shelby, St. Clair, Tazewell, a nearly $100 million, four-year project to install more than 1,000 new Vermilion, Will and Woodford. miles of high-speed fiber-optic broadband infrastructure across 55 Illinois counties. Supported by the Governor’s Illinois Jobs Now! The project was coordinated by the Illinois Broadband Opportunity construction program, the project created nearly 700 jobs expanding Partnership (IBOP), a statewide consortium of public and private access to high-speed broadband services for schools, libraries, sector partners organized by Governor Quinn and led by Illinois State hospitals and internet providers throughout Illinois. The network is University’s Central Illinois Regional Broadband Network (CIRBN) and part of the Governor’s agenda to create jobs and drive Illinois’ the State of Illinois Department of Central Management Services economy forward. (CMS). “High-speed internet access is a proven economic engine,” Governor Governor Quinn has invested more than $71 million in broadband Quinn said. “This expansion of Illinois’ broadband backbone will infrastructure throughout the state as part of his Illinois Jobs Now! create jobs and drive economic growth for generations to come.” capital construction program. This investment has leveraged more than $250 million in additional federal and private funding. Through “Investing in technology strengthens our public education system,” these projects, more than 3,000 miles of fiber optic cable have been Illinois State University Board Chairman Rocky Donahue said. “I want installed across Illinois. ◊ to thank Governor Quinn for his vision, leadership and partnership with ISU on this project.” To finish the project, engineers, equipment operators, technicians, splicers, laborers and electricians worked together to bury more than 1,000 miles of new fiber optic cable, and “light up” about 750 miles of existing “dark” fiber. All told, about 1,800 miles of fiber-optic cable are now in use across Illinois because of this project. The new network directly connects approximately 400 anchor institutions, including community colleges, universities, libraries, health facilities, K-12 schools and public safety agencies. Local internet providers can connect to the network to extend Internet service into communities with few or nonexistent high-speed options. Students throughout the state are already benefiting from faster access to online learning tools made available through the (ICN) investment. “Our Internet speed is 25 times faster than before, with plenty of room for future growth,” Iroquois West Community Unit School District #10 Information Technology Director Brian Eggemeyer said. “The ICN’s increased capacity will have a positive impact on every student in our district for years to come.” The project was funded by a $62 million competitive award from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) which was made possible by a $24 million commitment from the Illinois Jobs Now! capital program and nearly $10 million in other university, local and private resources.
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