Illinois has high education proficiency benchmarks. Yet instead of keeping that bar high, officials are proposing that the ...

Illinois successfully reformed public school funding, provided more school choice to families and leveled the playing field for students all within the last decade. Things that were once ...

SPRINGFIELD | As he campaigns to be Illinois' next governor, billionaire businessman Bruce Rauner ... what Chicago child was not let into Walter Payton High School that had that advantage ...

The sequel to Illinois’ historic ... block grant starting with the 2018-19 school year, poking a major hole in Rauner’s "bailout" claim. The bill’s Chicago pension component can’t be ...

Illinois governor Bruce Rauner ... from the losers (Chicago) in the school funding Hunger Games. All of Rauner’s property taxes will remain in Winnetka, so they won’t help the kids in the ...

The Democratic Illinois Senate voted to override Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a school-funding bill on ... of dollars from the hard-pressed Chicago Public Schools district.

CHICAGO -- There are questions Thursday about whether clout played a role in helping the daughter of gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner get into an elite Chicago school. An inspector general ...

Only then, Rauner said, can the state provide more money for education. Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool said last week that CPS and many other districts in Illinois would be unable to ...

Chicago Prosser built a comfortable third-inning advantage in a 12-1 win over Chicago Rauner at Chicago Rauner College Prep on May 5 in Illinois baseball action. In recent action on April 29 ...

Democrats either have to figure a way to defuse Rauner's anti-tax rhetoric or ... the reason property taxes are so high in Illinois—aside from waste, boondoggles, corruption, TIFs, etc—is ...

Bruce Rauner’s amendatory veto of a school funding measure he’s declared a Chicago bailout — with the fate of the bill now in the hands of the Illinois House. The Illinois Senate voted 38-19 ...

A school funding bill remained in limbo on Wednesday as a special session started on Wednesday. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- The Illinois ... formula. Rauner says it is too generous to Chicago public ...