Bruce Rauner: When it comes to K-12 education, Illinois families deserve high standards and proven policies
Lowering the bar is not a strategy to improve student outcomes. It is a waving of the white flag.
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Bruce Rauner: Don’t lower the bar for Illinois students
Illinois has high education proficiency benchmarks. Yet instead of keeping that bar high, officials are proposing that the state lower standards.
Bruce Rauner: Unions such as the CTU are taking away school choice from parents and their children
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 considered impossible...
Rauner offers pension relief to Chicago, schools
The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt. The road back to fiscal sanity starts today with my veto of...
Rauner op-ed: I’m vetoing the budget, offering Chicago pension relief
The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt. The road back to fiscal sanity starts today with my veto of...
How to raise the minimum wage
Tuesday, news outlets reported on a remark I made last month about lowering the minimum wage. One went so far as to characterize my remark as a "key policy proposal."...
Government unions and the downfall of Illinois
The upcoming presidential election is rightly foremost in voters' minds. But as we go to the polls, it's also worth looking closely at the sorry state of affairs right here...
Why the teachers’ labor contract stings
Members of the Chicago Teachers Union are voting Tuesday to ratify their new contract, and here is the bottom line: higher taxes and continued substandard teachers for many of our...
It’s time we say ‘enough’
Many of us have been touched by the magic of a great teacher. I know I have. However, we must not allow this nostalgia to give us a romanticized view...