Tax proposal shifts pain
From wealthy big-city enclaves to middle-income Downstate communities, homeowners would see a 20 percent increase on average in their combined property and state income tax bills if Illinois overhauls how...
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Big hike in pupil funding urged
Illinois should contribute $6,405 per student to educate its schoolchildren next school year--almost $1,500 more than it spends now--an influential group of state education advisers recommended Monday. The Education Funding...
Wind energy a goal in state
Less than a month after Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration approved a controversial coal-fired power plant, the governor plans to call for more of the state's electricity to come from wind...
Test scores don’t count the neediest
As the name suggests, the No Child Left Behind school reforms were intended to reach past the mainstream and lift up the disadvantaged, the disabled and children who might otherwise...
Test scores don’t count the neediest
As the name suggests, the No Child Left Behind school reforms were intended to reach past the mainstream and lift up the disadvantaged, the disabled and children who might otherwise...
Grass-roots efforts push school tax hikes to success
With a low-budget but sophisticated game plan that would make any political strategist proud, East Maine School District 63 did what the vast majority of Illinois school districts couldn't do...
Jobs, taxes generate some half-truths, exaggerations
President Bush and Sen. John Kerry resorted to plenty of half-truths and exaggerations in Wednesday's debate in Tempe, Ariz., as they discussed jobs, taxes, health care, education and other domestic...
Here’s what the debaters said, and what the facts show
Some facts and perhaps partial fiction from Friday evening's presidential debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry in St. Louis: Iraq and security Bush said Kerry's position on an...
Education reforms test the candidates
Educators in this southwestern Ohio town got thrilling news in late 2001: President Bush would sign his landmark school reforms called No Child Left Behind at Hamilton High, chosen from...
GOP supporters tout Gidwitz bid
With his strong will and trademark candor, prominent Chicago businessman and civic leader Ronald J. Gidwitz can bedazzle as well as offend--and he's not shy about doing either. "He's always...