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State Senator Andy Manar told the Gov. Rauner’s School Funding Reform Commission on January 17 that there was “drastic over-identification.” -By Bev Johns On the surface Illinois is engaged in a debate on how to fund Illinois schools. But Illinois...

Chicago Public Schools hired more than 10,000 teachers over the past decade or so, but with only about 13 percent of them black, the number of African-American educators at CPS has fallen to a modern-day record low. In the 2007-2008 school year, of...

Like Chicago Public Schools, CHA is under complete mayoral control. Emanuel appoints the board of directors and designates its president, and he appoints the chief executive. Under Emanuel, CHA has become an ongoing scandal, with construction of new...

When Detroit became the largest city in the history of the United States to file bankruptcy in 2013, a question quickly emerged: Which city would be next? Because conventional wisdom held that bloated pensions had bankrupted Detroit, the conversation...

Journalist Sarah Blaskey and International Socialist Review columnist Phil Gasper describe an unusual debate between venture capitalist/school "reformer" Bruce Rauner and Jesse Sharkey, the vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union--the day after...