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CHICAGO Attorney General Kwame Raoul today, as part of a coalition of state attorneys general, sued the Trump administration ...
Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration is “abandoning their responsibility to our students” by withholding $7 billion ...
AG Kwame Raoul leads a lawsuit with other attorneys general to block Trump administration's changes to public benefits, ...
SPRINGFIELD — A judge issued a ruling this month that reads as a scathing indictment of the way his state funds and oversees public education. Education funding lawsuits may show what’s ahead ...
The lawsuit is consistent with the position of the Illinois State Board of Education, which has said $7.2 billion more would be needed to meet the goal of 100 percent funding to adequate ...
The school district has joined a lawsuit suing the state of Illinois for failing to adequately fund public education. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected] Robert Cohen ...
Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is asking Judge John Robert Blakey to let him avoid prison while his attorneys ...
Chicago Public Schools, which have about 380,000 students, received about 15% of the state’s $10.6 billion in education funding, despite enrolling nearly 20% of Illinois' public students in 2016 ...