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Testing the Candidates

Chicago
November 1, 2018

Care about education? A Chalkbeat voter guide to the Illinois governor’s race

Between the candidates’ barbs, and the back-and-forth over tax breaks and toilets, the candidates for Illinois governor have occasionally been spotted talking real…

Deadlines

Chicago
October 10, 2018

90 days until no paycheck: Time running out for Illinois child-care providers in subsidy program

It’s hard to dispute the importance of training child-care providers on how to administer CPR or how to properly report suspected child abuse.

Testing the Candidates

Chicago
October 2, 2018

Rauner and Pritzker are at odds over most education issues — but agree on this one point

Rauner and Pritzker both say Illinois shouldn't rely so heavily on property taxes to fund schools — but Rauner said he’d temporarily freeze them while Rauner would roll them back. But put simply, neither had an immediate solution to plugging the massive gap between the $TK Illinois spends on K-12 public schools and projections of what adequate school funding would actually cost.

Asked and answered

Chicago
August 9, 2018

Longtime advocate (and current First Lady) Diana Rauner sizes up the challenges ahead for early education in Illinois

Fluent in the languages of developmental psychology (her Ph.D., from the University of Chicago) and finance (her MBA, from Stanford University), Illinois First…