Recently, as a result of extensive state budget cuts, the Board of Education of the Springfield Public Schools announced its plan in 2010 to refuse to pay tuition for students attending several of the schools on the UCVTS campus, on the grounds that it has comparable programs in engineering, performing arts, and health-care training.

Springfield: Illinois Community College Board, 1982.

In 1967, the Illinois General Assembly created a Board of Regents to operate Illinois State University and Northern Illinois University, as well as a third unnamed institution in Springfield.

After the play, a furious Lisa declares that Springfield is not nearly as fitting of the Shelbyville stereotype as suggested, and an equally angered Marge goes to Springfield's Cultural Advisory Board to brainstorm a plan to make Springfield more sophisticated.

Using the key to the concert hall given to her as head of the Springfield Cultural Activities Board, Marge finds Homer in the prison kitchen with the other prisoners close on his tail.

He died in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., on October 5, 1887 while attending a session of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions ( ABCFM ), which he was also a member.

Although a School Board of nine officials overlooked the joint amalgamation, the administration of the Transcona School District No. 39 and Municipality of Springfield did not actually merge until 1967.

Virtual Springfield was rated Teen ( T ) in North America by the Entertainment Software Rating Board for " animated violence ", " comic mischief ", and " suggestive themes ".

Established by the Springfield Park Board in 1922, Dickerson Park Zoo was developed with the help of WPA labor and funds in the 1930s.

* Springfield Finance Control Board

* Data for Springfield Township School District, National Center for Education Statistics

Clark State Community College was founded in 1962 under the name of the Springfield and Clark County Technical Education Program as a technical education college for Clark County, Ohio and the surrounding area.

The Springfield, Illinois-based Illinois Education Association Mutual Insurance Company, was renamed in honor of Mann in 1950 as the Horace Mann Educators Corporation.

Springfield College is known as the " Birthplace of Basketball ", a game created by alumnus and faculty member James Naismith under the founding head of the Physical Education department Luther Gulick Jr. in 1891.

* Manuel Rivera-Ortiz — did not graduate ; documentary photographer ; attended classes at Springfield Colleges as part of the Massachusetts Migrant Education summer program, where he was offered his first courses in photography and film development.

Arnold believes that this is most apparent in " Sideshow Bob Roberts ," wherein he rigs the election to become the mayor of Springfield.

When Homer collects supplies to protect his family and home from the marauding zombies, he decides to pursue a black sports car — which he believes belong to the aliens — to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

Springfield says that he does not remember the name of the girlfriend, and believes that the real woman who inspired the song has no idea that she was " Jessie's Girl ", telling Oprah Winfrey, " I was never really introduced to her.

Expressing his deep anger, he yells at and insults all the residents of Springfield and directs his most hateful statement at Homer ( who believes he got off easy because he wasn't yelled at ).

The absence of Porter's column greatly impacted Marmaduke's chance for success at Springfield.

Similarly, 30-06 Springfield can become 308 Winchester, which can become 308 x 1. 5 or any number of specialized benchrest shooting cartridges.

* USS Springfield, any of several ships by that name

Abraham Lincoln kept a copy of Euclid in his saddlebag, and studied it late at night by lamplight ; he related that he said to himself, " You never can make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means ; and I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight ".

Fellow Ohioan Robert C. Henry was the first African American mayor of any U. S. city ( Springfield, elected 1966 ).

The term Springfield Rifle may refer to any one of several types of small arms produced by the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, for the United States armed forces.

The Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad was projected to run from Sandusky on Lake Erie south to a proposed interchange at Springfield, where trains could be handed over to the Little Miami to proceed to Cincinnati -- thus providing the Great Lakes region and its products with year-round access to the rest of the nation, as access to any of the ships then sailing on the Great Lakes meant access to the proposed railroad link to the Ohio River.

There is a service in Ceres every Sunday at 11. 15 am except on Remembrance Sunday ( 10: 45am ) and the fifth Sunday of any month, when a united service is held in rotation at Ceres, Kemback or Springfield at 11am.

Springfield has been represented by various political parties over its long history, without any one party dominating for an extended period of time.

This is the episode that defines Springfield more than any other.

Huser is later revealed to be a media personality, and he appears on a network's morning television show warning tourists against visiting Springfield and giving it his lowest rating for any American location ( six out of ten ).

The final Springfield Indian playing any significant time with the franchise active in the NHL was Rob DiMaio, who last played in the 2006 preseason with the Dallas Stars ; the final Indians playing significant time with the franchise active in professional hockey were Michel Picard and Terry Yake, active respectively in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey and the Swiss Nationalliga B through the end of the 2009 season.

Elizur Holyoke was in command of the successful defense of Springfield, until his death in 1676, one account says not due directly to any injury.

Bart, who does not want to be seen in public with Ralph, has a scare when the two encounter Nelson's gang of bullies riding a stolen vehicle with a video ( Bart covers this up by hastily convincing Ralph to hide in a prickly bush ), but later exploits it when he discovers Ralph's father has a police master key capable of opening any door in Springfield.

Armin decides that there is no longer any place for him in Springfield, and retires from his job.

Lisa warns Homer, but he is skeptical since there isn't any record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield.

A typical review of this period after a 1980 Springfield Symphony Hall performance declared Franchi to be “ in top form, physically and vocally ... he regaled the audience with .. a series of flawlessly performed renditions ... comfortable with any kind of music, has yet to reach his final peak .” And a 1981 Front Row performance garnered standing ovations for his operatic arias, appreciation for his warm personality, splendid dancing, and the “ great power, range, and purity of

MoDOT has been one of the leaders in the construction of the diverging diamond interchange, having built the first such interchange in the United States ( June 2009 in Springfield ) and the most of any state ( six as of September 2012 ).

At Springfield Road, Mrs Murray gave her name but refused to answer any other questions and she also declined to be photographed or to submit to an examination by a medical orderly.

It is the fifth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Lowell.

Ponzi was released on bail as he appealed the state conviction, and fled to the Springfield neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida and launched the Charpon Land Syndicate (" Charpon " is an amalgam of his name ), offering investors in September 1925 tiny tracts of land, some under water, and promising 200 % returns in 60 days.

Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York ; the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 116, 250 ( U. S. Bureau of the Census, 2010 ), making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area.

Present day Springfield was first settled in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state.

In addition, the government of the state of Illinois is also based in Springfield.

* Springfield, Illinois, the state capital of Illinois

Early court business included the location and opening of roads from the county seat to various places within the state, including St. Louis, Springfield, Jefferson City, Lake Spring, and Salem.

Its county seat is Springfield, the state capital.

Route 24 is a state highway in New Jersey, United States, that extends from a junction with Interstate 287 in Hanover Township in Morris County, passing southeast through Essex County, and ends at a junction with Interstate 78 in Springfield Township in Union County.

It was seriously considered as possibility for the state capital at the time the center of government was moved from Vandalia to Springfield.

, a member of a political group in Illinois in the 1830s led by Abraham Lincoln that advocated moving the state capitol from Vandalia to Springfield.

Cheshire's town center is located 10. 5 miles northeast of Pittsfield, 53 miles northwest of Springfield, and 135 miles west-northwest of Boston ( although the town is closer to Hartford and Albany than its own state capital ).

New Ashford is north of Pittsfield, northwest of Springfield, and west-northwest of Boston ( although, like much of the Berkshires, it is closer to both Hartford and Albany than its own state capital ).

Savoy is northeast of Pittsfield, northwest of Springfield and approximately west by northwest of Boston ( although it is closer to both Hartford and Albany than its own state capital ).

Springfield is a city in Calhoun County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

It originally extended into present day Ohio, when that part of the state ( known as the Toledo Strip ) was claimed by both Ohio and Michigan during the Toledo War This larger Whiteford Township included most of present day Sylvania, Sylvania Township, northern Springfield Township and a small section of present-day Toledo north of Airport Highway between Reynolds Road and Holland-Sylvania.

Springfield Township is a charter township of Oakland County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

At the state level, Springfield Township is located in Senate District 22, represented by Republican Doug Magnus, and in House District 22B, represented by Republican Rod Hamilton.

* In 2010, while competing at the MTEEA Supermileage Competition, the Springfield High School CADD Team, under the direction of Mr. TJ Brown, pulled off what has since been considered the greatest upset in competition history by winning a state title in the “ Best Design ” portion of the competition with a severely underfinanced and undermanned team.

Springfield Township is in the 4th Congressional district and is part of New Jersey's 8th state legislative district.

* Old Upper Springfield Friends Burying Ground-The cemetery and the accompanying meeting house were placed on both the New Jersey ( state ID # 875 ) and the National Register of Historic Places ( Reference # 79001479 ) in 1979.

Springfield is a city in the U. S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Clark County.

Springfield is approximately a one hour drive west of Columbus, Ohio, the state capital, and 30 minutes east of Dayton.