Education advocates are savoring their first victory in a legal case challenging Illinois' school funding system and say the win comes at a critical j...
Posted 10.02.2008 | Chicago
The rev. and state Sen. James Meeks led nearly 1,500 protesters outside Wrigley Field Tuesday night in a bid to draw national attention to his ongoing...
Posted 10.01.2008 | Chicago
Hundreds of people will gather around Wrigley Field during Wednesday's playoff game to protest school funding inequities, but they will not ring the s...
Lorraine Forte | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago
The data is shocking: If the students who enrolled in kindergarten in Chicago Public Schools in 1994 had, instead, enrolled in top-spending Lake Forest-Libertyville schools, they would have reaped the benefit of an extra $36 billion-worth of education by the time they graduated.
Chi Town Daily News | Paul D. Bowker | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago
Chicago Public Schools chief Arne Duncan told state legislators yesterday that a "modest income tax hike" should be considered so that school funding ...
Chicago Sun-Times | Rosalind Rossi | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago
Six thousand protesters, wearing bright orange T-shirts, could ring Wrigley Field during the first Chicago Cubs playoff game, under a plan by state Se...
Greg Harris | Posted 09.16.2008 | Chicago
I have had a number of inquiries about the details of the proposal to lease the State Lottery, so here we go with an explanation of SB2595, the version of the lottery lease proposal passed by the House.
Chicago Tribune | Monique Garcia | Posted 09.15.2008 | Chicago
State Sen. James Meeks is scheduled to meet with Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday to discuss school funding, but don't expect a policy breakthrough from...
Posted 09.05.2008 | Chicago
Chicago Public Schools officials claimed first-day attendance was record high, despite the two day boycott led by the rev. and state Sen. James Meeks....
Lorraine Forte | Posted 09.04.2008 | Chicago
While media eyes have been focused on Meeks' school boycott, another plan from the legislator/mega-church pastor has gotten little publicity: His proposal to allow kids to enroll in any school in the state, without paying tuition.
Dan Johnson-Weinberger | Posted 09.02.2008 | Chicago
Don't tell me that we can't find a way to provide the children of Sen. Meeks' community with the resources and accountability and culture of academic achievement that we already provide the children of Winnetka.
Chicago Reporter | Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Alden K. Loury and Matthew Hendrickson | Posted 08.21.2008 | Chicago
A new Chicago Reporter analysis of school funding data shows the long-term disparities in school funding as area civil rights leaders filed a lawsuit ...
AP | Jenny Song | Posted 08.20.2008 | Chicago
Using property tax revenue to fund Illinois schools is unconstitutional and discriminatory, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Chicago Urba...
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