SPRINGFIELD — The state’s largest teachers’ union on Wednesday, May 22 called on Illinois lawmakers to lift a state-imposed cap on the size of pay raises they can receive, saying…
SPRINGFIELD — A pair of reports released this week offered supporting arguments for one of Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s top priorities: increasing investment in early childhood…
The number of school districts in Illinois could be reduced by as much as 20 percent, under legislation pending in the state Senate. State Sen. Tom Cullerton (D-Villa Park) has proposed…
State Rep. Sue Scherer (D-Decatur) remembers her time as a public school teacher and the continual issue she had with classroom supplies. Early one school year, she broke the stapler…
Are teachers at Niles West and Niles North high schools in Cook County twice as valuable as teachers in Peoria County’s Princeville High School? Not according to data from the Illinois…
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ new evidence-based school funding model is effectively driving added funding to the state’s neediest school districts, but the state must double its annual…
Picture this: Students going on a family vacation and not being marked absent from school or the school building being closed due to 6 inches of snow falling overnight but no extra…
Students in Illinois unable to pay for their lunch would not be singled out or treated any differently, according to proposed legislation. In many school districts, students who are…
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