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The most powerful position in public schools is that of school superintendent, and it is a position dominated by men. Several factors account for the decline of women in superintendency. Perhaps the most important reason there are so few women in the superintendency is that women enter the teaching profession to teach children. Based on the literature, a questionnaire was prepared and sent to all female superintendents in the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Texas. Results reveal that female superintendents did not seem to indicate discrimination by their male board members or in the type or size of school district they would consider for superintendent positions. It is also found that some of the barriers to the superintendency for women include: lack of encouragement, lack of professional network, limited access to formal and informal training, exclusion from the "Good Old Boy Network," and lack of influential sponsors.

The article discusses the nature and scope of constitutional provisions to keep and bear arms in Illinois. Topics include the firearms rights protection under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; analytical tools for the Illinois Supreme Court to adjudicate issues related to article I, section 22 of the Illinois Constitution; the police power mentioned in the article I, section 22, which limits the scope of the arms right; and the court case Kalodimos v. Village of Morton Grove.