Illinois’ Education Leaders on Current Challenges of Funding and Reforms
From Chicago: We sit with the four of the leaders in Illinois education, to hear how the recently passed school funding reform is going...
The State Budget and Education
From the Illinois Assn of School Boards annual conference in Chicago- Sen Jason Barickman (R), Sen Bertino-Tarrent (D), are joined by Rep Bob Pritchard...
LIVE from the Illinois Assn of School Boards Annual Conference in...
CHICAGO: Before a room of school board members, a panel of lawmakers will discussed significant issues affecting schools in Illinois. State funding, unfunded mandates,...
Putting the New School Funding Formula to Work
Springfield: Now that Illinois just passed a new school funding formula, how long will it take to be implemented? We talk with Dr Brent...
Comptroller Mendoza: $805 Million Will Go Out to Schools This Week
CHICAGO— Just after midnight Thursday morning, Comptroller Susana Mendoza’s office began transmitting $541 million in General State Aid to schools around the state. These...
House Floor Debate on SB-1947, the School Funding Reform Bill
From the House Chamber: Before the Illinois House passed SB-1947, the bill that reforms the school funding formula, it first voted it down, after...
Legislative Leaders Say They’ve Reached an Agreement “In Principle” on Education...
Chicago -- Speaker Madigan cancelled the House session that was to have met this past Wednesday for a vote to try and override the...
Using Tax Credits to Privately Fund Education Scholarships for Low-Income Students
From the State Capitol: We talk with Lennie Jarratt, of the Heartland Institute, and hear how the use of tax credits applied to privately...
BiPartisan Panel of Lawmakers Share Their Goals on School Funding Reform
From the City Club of Chicago - the leaders in their caucus for education funding reform share the stage to discuss how Illinois can...
Illinois Senate in Session at 2 PM Sunday, in Expected Vote...
Springfield - In what seems to be in many ways a replay of the Budget Battle we had in July, when the legislature voted...
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Historian Mark DePue: Preserving Illinois’ Oral History
From the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library: We talk with historian and fmr military officer, Mark DePue on his work of conducting indepth oral history...