bruce rauner Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner used his veto power Tuesday to strip millions of dollars for Chicago Public Schools from a school funding overhaul, a move that could mean no districts get state money ... 03/25/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Ethics complaint filed over Chicago Teacher’s Union Get Out the Vote event The Illinois Policy Institute has now filed an ... Of course, the right-wing Rauner-funded think tank attacks student civic engagement. The Student Power Forum is a nonpartisan voter education ... 03/11/2024 - 1:45 pm | View Link
Illinois Becomes First State To Roll Back School Voucher Program Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I look at K-12 policies and practices from the classroom perspective. Tax credit scholarships create the illusion that taxpayers are not ... 11/10/2023 - 12:40 am | View Link
The Illinois Voucher Law Is About To Ride Into The Sunset. Will Lawmakers Rescue It, Or Just Wave Goodbye? Vouchers and tax credit scholarships are often used as a way to get around the wall between church and state, and Illinois appears to be no exception. An analysis of Illinois Department of Revenue ... 02/8/2023 - 4:47 am | View Link
Tag: Bruce Rauner The CEO of the influential Illinois Policy Institute, whose employees were recruited en masse for governor's office positions, sits down to talk about pensions, Madigan, and who controls Springfield. 01/8/2021 - 4:03 pm | View Link
“Lawsuits by members of Congress and police officers against Donald Trump for his actions on Jan. 6 may advance despite the related criminal case against him in Washington, a federal judge ruled Thursday,” Politico reports.
“U. S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected Trump’s effort to pause the lawsuits until the criminal charges over his attempt to subvert the 2020 election — brought by special counsel Jack Smith — are resolved.”
Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said on C-SPAN that some of his Republican colleagues want Russia to “win” in their war with Ukraine.
Said Bacon: “If we don’t do this, the Russians will be in Kiev. Unfortunately, a few of my colleagues would like to see the Russians win. I don’t know why that is the case.
“Lawmakers on a Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to slash unemployment benefits — part of a Republican-backed push to roll back regulations on companies and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers,” the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) filed an amendment to the Israel funding bill that included “such sums as necessary shall be used for the development of space laser technology on the southwest border.”