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

Preliminary enrollment data for the 2024-2025 school year show a less than 1% uptick in enrollment. The biggest increase is in English Learners. Despite the modest increase, this year’s preliminary ...

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

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

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

Where is support strongest for the gunshot detection system Chicago’s mayor wants to dump? In the Black and Hispanic wards ...

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 ...

Illinois saw jobs grow by 36,300 since August 2023. This growth rate ranked Illinois 44th among all states for non-farm job growth at 0.59%. This is far behind the national growth of 1.51% in the ...

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 ...

Use the maps to find the legislators representing you. You can search for Illinois state senators, house representatives and Chicago alderman. The maps show the state districts and Chicago ...

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 ...