Juneteenth . June 19
Updated on 03/23/2025
>Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House two months earlier in Virginia, but slavery had remained relatively unaffected in Texas—until U.S. General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”
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Title IX June 23, 1972
Updated on 03/23/2025
53 years ago on June 23rd, Title IX of the Education Amendments was signed into law. This game changing law “is a comprehensive law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in all programs or activities in all federally funded educational institutions including high schools and middle schools” (Pennepacker, 2021). When you interpret the law, it allows women and girls to participate in middle school, high school, and college sports without discrimination.To this day, women and girls have accomplished and broke through many barriers thanks to Title IX. It's important to highlight some of the pioneers/advocates of this movement and to thank them for their relentless efforts: Edith Louise Starrett Green, Billie Jean King, and Peg Pennepacker.
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2025 CAMP LIONS
Posted on 12/15/2024
Camp Lions Registration Opens in early January! Students with low vision/blind and/or hard of hearing/deaf are all eligibleVisit https://lionsofillinoisfoundation.org/
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Welcome / Multiple Video's & Tour of ISVI
Updated on 02/15/2025
Welcome to our Virtual Tour of ISVI!Thank you for visiting our web site! Below are 7 links to separate Videos. The first two are about ISVI while 4 are news reports from Channel 20 out of Springfield on two of the several sports we participate in - Goalball and Track. At the end there's yet another Video of our Opening Doors Program. This website's goal is to be an added resource as to all the great opportunities that are happening for the students at ISVI. For more detailed school information click on ISVI's State website. You can also find links taking you directly to other local schools in Jacksonville such as ISD, Routt, & JHS. We are fortunate in that both Routt & JHS work directly with both ISD & ISVI. We are also proud to be a Leader in Me School. We're still a work in progress as we continue to include what's happening at our sister schools in town. It's a family
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Support our Students / School
Updated on 03/25/2025
We are very thankful of all the organizations and business' that support our students, school, and activities. The donations, advertisements, and sponsors obviously help us by their financial donations, but equally important: they help us to build stronger connections between the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired and the community. As with every school, budgets are tight and the cost of activities and sports continue to rise. ISVI is a residential school in which our students are from all over the state. Unlike our local public schools, the vast majority of our students are not local. At the same time, our students are integrated throughout Jacksonville and as a result, Jacksonville becomes their 2nd home. From their first day of attendance, our students learn to advocate for themselves and become as independent as possible. We’re fortunate in that this community embraces all the schools. This is evident by the
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Independence Day : July 4
Updated on 03/23/2025
Independence Day, also called Fourth of July or July 4th, in the United States, the annual celebration of nationhood.It commemorates the passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. ... Such festivals had long played a significant role in the Anglo-American political tradition.
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ADA - July 26, 1990
Updated on 03/23/2025
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) / 1990The ADA prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, State and local government, public accommodations, commercial facilities, transportation, and telecommunications.=== === ===The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. Its overall purpose is to make American Society more accessible to people with disabilities. In 2008, the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) was passed. Its purpose is to broaden the definition of disability, which had been narrowed by U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The ADA is devided into 5 titles:Employment (Title I) ... Public Services (Title II) ... Public Accommodations (Title III) ... Telecommunications (Title IV) ... Miscellaneous (Title V) ...
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Twilight Parade August 7
Updated on 06/15/2025
The Twilight Parade always precedes the opening of the State Fair in August and this years’ theme is - TBA Once again, we'll have a float. ISVI staff, students, and their families are welcome to join us in the Parade as we represent ISVI. There is No cost to participate, and at the end of the Parade – all our parade participants gain FREE Entry into the Fair after the parade. If you're interested in helping us decorate our float, and/or willing to donate a bag of candy for the parade, just let us know. We are not allowed to throw candy, however we are allowed to drop or hand out items. It’s going to be a great time, and hope you’ll be able to join us. If this parade didn’t work out for you, all is not lost as ISVI will participate in at least 2 other parades in September - Homecoming Parades in Jacksonville for both Routt and JHS.
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Booster Club's Fundraiser
Updated on 06/12/2025
The ISVI Booster Club is selling Football Cards for the 2025 NFL season. Each week we're guaranteed at least 1 WINNER from our allotment of tickets we're selling. Your 1 Ticket gives you two chances to Win each week in the NFL season. Once again, to allow us the time to promote and sell tickets - all tickets are for the 2nd half of the NFL season. Over the past 4 seasons - from our stack of tickets to sell - we've had 84 people Win $$$ (Our weekly winners are usually the $25 winners but others have been a $100, $300, and 1 $400 winner). One question that gets asked is if you win once, are you done? NO - your tickets has 2 chances every week. Tickets are only $20 and with 2 chances each week to Win - you have a chance to Win 16 times! Purchase yours Today! The Booster Club works with ISVI to offset the costs of each sport as well as the cost of using outside facilities such as JHS, MAC,
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Pack the House Night @ Los Rancheros
Updated on 04/23/2025
On TBD we'll have a Pack the House Night @ Los Rancheros from 11 am - 10 pm Los will donate $$$ back to the ISVI Booster Club based on orders from all dine in & pickup orders between 11:00 am - 10:00 pm. Delivery will not be credited. Help us Spread the word, and Thank you for your support!
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Victory Day : Aug. 14
Updated on 03/23/2025
Victory Day, also known as VJ Day, marks the anniversary the Allies’ victory over Japan during World War II. It followed the dropping of the devastating atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Victory Day is a state holiday in Rhode Island in the United States on the second Monday of August each year.
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