The following are editorials, commentaries, and opinions from various sources regarding public education, collected in March and April 2017. Comments and opinions of websites linked from this page do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Illinois Association of School Boards.
Opinion: Reform needed in state school funding
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Linda McDaniel-Hale, Elgin Courier News, March 3
Cinda Klickna, president of the Illinois Education Association, The
News-Gazette, Champaign, March 5
Jake Griffin, Daily Herald, Chicago suburbs, March 8
David Leonhardt, New York Times, March 10
Rebecca Wattleworth, math and science teacher at Warrensburg-Latham High
School, State Journal-Register, Springfield, March 10
Patrick Anderson, superintendent, Wood River-Hartford School District
15, Alton Telegraph, March 10
Editorial Board, The Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, March 12
Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, March 14
Editorial Board, Quad Cities Dispatch-Argus, March 15
Editorial Board, State Journal-Register, Springfield, March 18
Sherri M. Askren, president of United Way of Danville Area, Inc.,
Danville Commercial News, March 19
Alfred W. Tatum, dean of the College of Education at the University of
Illinois at Chicago, Chicago Tribune, March 20
Editorial Board, Bureau County Republican, March 24