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Fiscal experts are warning that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will be back for more once the revenue raised from yet another increase in property taxes disappears into the fiscal black hole that is the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund (CTPF).
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A new city-mandated curriculum on police brutality in Chicago schools involving former Police Cmdr. Jon Burge and his torture victims has no place in the classroom, some former educators and parents say.
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Illinois passed historic education funding reform in late August, but the foundation upon which it is built is faulty and doomed to collapse, Hoover Institute fellow and Stanford University Prof. Eric Hanushek said on the “Illinois Rising” radio program recently.
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Chris Cleveland says that for all the talk of the revolutionary new school funding formula, there's still the fact that Illinois is relying on its same old way of doing things: raising taxes.
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Chicago Public Schools (CPS) should have already learned the lessons of poor financial management, Ted Dabrowski, vice president of policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, contended on a recent episode of "Illnois Rising."
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel has a simple way of getting rid of Chicago's poor financial management, the Better Government Agency (BGA) says: Don't mention them.
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Chicago Transit Authority Board will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 9.
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Chicago Transit Authority Board of Committee on Finance, Audit & Budget will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 9.
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Illinois Republicans have liked what several newspapers in the state have said recently about the state's school funding bill -- so much so that they've sent out a press release highlighting some of the harsh words the papers reserved for Democrats.
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The Illinois Republican Party is gathering ammunition in its efforts to paint a portrait of pandering to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in Senate Bill 1, the state's public school funding measure.
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Gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker is backing the Chicago-biased school funding bill because he cares more about his career than schoolchildren, the Illinois Republican Party is charging.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel attacked Gov. Bruce Rauner on Tuesday for Rauner's amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, arguing that the governor is putting politics above students.
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On August 1, Gov. Bruce Rauner issued an amendatory veto to the school funding bill Senate Bill 1.
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The Illinois Republican Party wants the Democratic party to answer the bell, and it's making its point known in a series of robocalls targeting House Speaker Michael Madigan and the Democratic candidates for governor.
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School’s out in the summertime. So when Harrisburg’s Mike and Angella Gauch decided they would drive to Springfield earlier this month, getting out of work wasn’t a concern.
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Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) might as well send Gov. Bruce Rauner a ransom note over the state's public school funding bill, the Illinois Republican Party said in a press release recently.
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Suburban property taxpayers would be on hook for CPS’ $17B in debt if schools bill becomes state law
A measure that would require homeowners in Chicago’s suburbs to pay off Chicago Public Schools’ $17 billion in debt is expected to go to Gov. Bruce Rauner’s desk for his signature later this month.
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Gov. Bruce Rauner believes House Speaker Mike Madigan practices "legislative extortion," hurting the state in order to advance his own agenda, according to remarks Rauner made on a Chicago radio show recently.
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Sullivan High School in Rogers Park has a filthy basement. North Side State Representatives Ann Marie Williams (D-North Center) and Kelly Cassidy (D-Rogers Park) opted to skip work in Springfield this week and, instead, take pictures of themselves cleaning it.
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State bureaucrats will dictate how many teachers Illinois school districts must hire and how much to pay them if a school funding bill is signed into law this month.
Burr Ridge mayor angers Durkin with decision to run against him
Socialist state rep. demands Chicago "rent control;" would be a boon to capitalist landlords
Collective bargaining described as plaguing schools with absent teachers
D'Amico challenger decries forcing Illinoisans to pay double mortgages, in effect
Chicago Teachers Pension Fund described as bottomless pit into which Illinois dumps fortune
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