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Less than an hour before Gov. Bruce Rauner was scheduled to deliver his State of the State address, lawmakers in the House and Senate voted to override…
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Gov. Bruce Rauner has claimed his top accomplishment of last year was transforming the way Illinois funds public schools. But the dollars pledged by that…
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Following the WAMU/NPR investigation into policy violations at Ballou High School, a new report shows that across the District, such violations were found in 937 of 2,758 graduating students' records.
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Families who send their children to private schools probably thought they received a break under the new federal tax law. But Illinois State Treasurer…
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The Illinois State Board of Education today voted unanimously to ask the General Assembly to practically double state funding for public schools. Last…
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Last week, Gov. Bruce Rauner used his veto authority to make big changes to a small clean-up bill that’s necessary to enact school funding reform.…
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If you’ve seen Gov. Bruce Rauner’s campaign commercials, you might think the school funding issue was settled last summer. But as often happens with…
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Gov. Bruce Rauner has boasted that fixing Illinois’ woefully inequitable school funding formula was his top accomplishment of the past year. But…
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For the past several years, Illinois has been losing more college students than any state except New Jersey. Last year, as higher education was starved...
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Beginning this week, people and corporations donating up to $1.3 million for private school scholarships can get a 75 percent credit toward their state…