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Illinois school districts in the East Saint Louis area are raising student fees and even considering a shorter school year as state education funding…
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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner spoke in Rockford to tout a new school funding framework. The governor paid a visit to the Barbour Two-Way Immersion School,…
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Last summer, Governor Bruce Rauner asked 20 lawmakers and a handful of educators to change how Illinois funds public schools. That bipartisan commission…
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The state’s ongoing budget impasse has hit community colleges particularly hard, with funds to these schools and the students who attend them drastically…
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Despite a standstill over the Illinois budget, a group of bipartisan lawmakers has been meeting more often in recent weeks to devise a plan to overhaul…
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Illinois' leaders are divided over school funding, even as superintendents worry it will get caught in the political stalemate.Gov. Bruce Rauner wants to…
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College campuses (and the politics behind them) are taking center stage in Springfield's festering stalemate.Budget gridlock has kept money from going to…
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Chicago State University won’t have funds to operate by March 1 if state money is not released, officials there have said.
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Gov. Bruce Rauner is criticizing the number of school districts and administrators in the K-through-12 system as too costly.Rauner is calling for what he…
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Both major party candidates for governor say Illinois should put more money into education. But neither is ready to embrace a controversial plan that…