The Rising Cost of Pensions & the Impact on School Funding
From the Illinois Assn of School Boards, we hear from four legislators discuss the on-going budget stalemate, and what impact the rising cost of...
Gov Rauner, Educators, and Trade Group Leaders, on the Need for...
From Springfield: Gov Rauner holds a meeting with educators and students, about the great paying jobs that are often available to those with a...
Teaching Teens and Adults to Drive to Save Your Life
From the Illinois Assn of School Boards Conference - Lt Matthew Boerwinkle shares how he works in the Safety Education program within...
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,...
Sen Cullerton on Changing the School Funding Formula
From the City Club of Chicago: Senate President John Cullerton talks about his plan to look at the school funding formula and what might...
Education Leaders on the Financial Challenges to Education
We talk with Illinois School Boards, Exec Director, Roger Eddy, School Administrators Exec Dir., Dr. Brent Clark, and Illinois School Business Officials Exec. Director,...
Higher Education Reform Package Designed to Keep Students in Illinois
As the Spring Session of the legislature drew to a close, a package of legislative reforms were offered by a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
The...
Gov Rauner on Funding Higher Education and Keeping Illinois College Students...
Next, from Bloomington Normal, Governor Rauner signs a bill at Illinois State University that he says will improve the state’s funding formula for higher...
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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...