Tony Smith

The Illinois State Board of Education is supposed to spend more government dollars on the neediest schools, according to a new funding plan. Today,…

Want to know how your kid's school is performing compared to others? The Illinois State Board of Education today released graduation rates, test scores,…

Some Illinois districts spend just above six-thousand dollars per student in a school year, while other districts spend more than five times that amount.…

Illinois' school funding formula relies heavily on property taxes, resulting in deep disparities in districts’ levels of spending. When the Illinois State…

The makeup of Illinois schools is changing. If you moved every desk, from every Illinois school, into one giant classroom, more than half of the kids in…

Members of Illinois' House Government Administration Committee hoped to grill Superintendent Tony Smith about expensive perks he gets on top of his…

Top officials of the state board of education declined to appear before a House committee yesterday to answer questions about costly perks being paid to…