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The Real Chilling Effect Of A Property Tax Freeze
Commentary, Charles N. Wheeler III, Illinois Edition and Illinois Issues, WUIS-NPR Illinois, Springfield, March 2
In this collection of opinions, we recommend today’s commentary by Charles N. Wheeler, director of the Public Affairs Reporting program at the University of Illinois Springfield and a veteran newsman with a 24-year career at the Chicago Sun-Times. He was a participant in the analysts panel at last week’s Alliance Leadership Summit. Click on the link above to read Wheeler's commentary from Illinois Edition and Illinois Issues on the implications of a property tax freeze in Illinois.
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STATE AFFAIRS: Illinois doesn’t know how many kids not in school
Editorial, Jim Nowlan, Ottawa Times, February 1
Repeal the state pie?
Upstate lawmaker takes aim at State Designations Act
Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan, February 2
Editorial: Lake Zurich hazing: When adults look the other way
Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, February 2
Kadner: School funding panel lacks guts
Opinion, Phil Kadner, Chicago Sun-Times, February 3
Editorial: Grand bargain better help school kids
Editorial Board, Chicago Sun-Times, February 3
Our View: Action, not talk, needed on public school funding
Editorial Board, State Journal-Register, February 4
Our View: District 186 needs your input on its school buildings
Editorial Board, State Journal-Register, February 5
Detailed facts about the County School Facilities Sales Tax
Carrie E. Hruby, Superintendent, O'Fallon CCSD 90, Belleville News-Democrat, February 8
Commentary: While politicians bicker,
Illinois' poorest schools slip further behind
Steven G. Fouts, teacher at Chicago’s Frederick Douglass Academy High School, Chicago Tribune, February 9
Kadner: Mom says school reform numbers don’t add up
Opinion, Phil Kadner, Chicago Sun-Times, February 10
Being pro-active in dealing with bullying
Jon Kilgore, Superintendent, Pontiac THSD 90, Pontiac Daily Leader, February 11
Schoenburg: Where is ‘moral outrage’
for Illinois high schools, Kennedy asks
Bernard Schoenburg, State Journal-Register, February 11
Brown: Rauner doing no favors for Senate leaders — or schools
Politics, Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times, February 15
Editorial: Chicago Public Schools 'on the brink'
Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, February 16
Our View: Rockford schools, parks create winning scenario for all
Editorial Board, Rockford Register Star, February 17
Legislature should standardize election disqualifiers
Editorial Board, Daily Southtown, Chicago and suburbs, February 17
Editorial: The spirited debate at New Trier:
Civil rights awareness or 'indoctrination day'?
Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, February 23
Our view: Harrisburg contract issues are troubling
Editorial Board, The Daily Register, Harrisburg, February 24
Finally, wheels in motion for East Aurora busing
Opinion, Denise Crosby, Aurora Beacon-News, February 25
Editorial: Stop stalling on school funding for kids
Editorial Board, Chicago Sun-Times, February 26
Phil Kadner: Madigan is no champion of schoolchildren
Opinion, Phil Kadner, Chicago Sun-Times, February 28