Preliminary enrollment data for the 2024-2025 school year show a less than 1% uptick in enrollment. The biggest increase is ...

Mississippi state lawmakers enacted science-based literacy legislation in 2013, laying the groundwork for improved reading ...

With 40 days until the election, Illinois residents can vote early at their local county clerks’ office. Vote-by-mail ballots ...

The Chicago Teachers Union is backing various candidates for Chicago Board of Education. CTU has donated more than $175,000 ...

Illinois is famous for machine politics and machine bosses such as Mike Madigan, Richard J. Daley and Ed Burke. In Chicago, the machine has been changing, spurred by the void left by Illinois ...

This episode of The Policy Shop is by writer Patrick Andriesen Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s campaign pledge to end the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system has come to fruition. The city’s contract ...

Chicago led the state in mass layoffs, accounting for more than one-third of job cuts in August. The statewide data shows 93% ...

Student literacy is in trouble nationally, which is why Illinois is one of 35 states where just 1 in 3 – or fewer – of its fourth graders met reading standards in 2022. The Chicago Teachers ...

Illinois sales taxes 7th highest in U.S. Illinois’ combined state and average local sales tax is the seventh highest in the nation. It is the highest among the most populous states. 2 new ...

Chicagoans experienced 7.2% more violent crime between August 2023 and July 204, with cases of robbery, aggravated assault and aggravated battery at five-year highs. Chicago for the 12th year is ...