Illinois state lawmakers are trying to close the gap of underfunded schools across the state, which affects millions of kids.

We’ll start with an apology. While pension funding is deeply important both to the public servants who earn pensions and to ...

Two Illinois state legislators want to make sure school districts get the funding they need.

The Trump administration last year tried to require state and local education agencies to sign a document affirming ...

Illinois is in dire need for more educational funding, but should do its homework on the federal tax-credit scholarship ...

Illinois could fall short on its promise to fully fund public schools by 2027. The state made a big change to the way it ...

Illinois might be struggling to meet its goals of fully funding every school by 2027. But things used to be much worse. “Illinois quite notoriously had one of the most ...

The Illinois State Board of Education voted Wednesday to recommend the state increase education funding at about the same amount as previous years, but far less than what would be needed to fully fund ...

At Curie High School in Chicago, the feds' decision to discontinue the Full-Service Community Schools grant threatens tutoring, after-school programs and parent programming.

Lawmakers set a 2027 goal to fund at least 90% of each school's state funding needs, though it is $5 billion short with just a year to go.