Senator Sanders to Address People’s Summit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders will deliver the keynote address Saturday in Chicago at the People’s Summit, a...
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Attorney General Madigan Urges Education Secretary Devos to Stop Delaying Student Loan Forgiveness
CHICAGO, IL – Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced she is leading a coalition of attorneys general and other state...
AARP Urges Senate to Start From Scratch on Health Care Bill, Begins Notifying Millions of Members How House Reps Voted
Letter to Senate Warns Against Age Tax, Taking Away Pre-existing Condition Protections, Massive Health Care Cost Increases WASHINGTON, DC -...
Chicago Schools are Expelling 3-Year-Olds. It Needs to Stop
OP-ED: By State Rep. Juliana Stratton Three-year olds are getting expelled from preschool. Let that thought sink in for a...
Student Loan Scam Gets an “F” From the FTC
By Alesha Hernandez Consumer Education Specialist, FTC The costs of student loans and fees can be overwhelming. You might see...
Black Woman Dies After Plastic Surgery in Dominican Republic
Death on the table - rooted in cultural imperialism By Akbar Muhammad Nationwide (BlackNew.com) - This article is personal...
Does the DeVos Education Budget Promote “Choice” or Segregation?
An Op-ed from the Poverty & Race Research Action Council on the proposed Fiscal Year 2018 Education Budget By...
Teachers at Chicago’s Passages Elementary to Strike May 25 – First Charter Strike in U.S. History
Management won’t budge on opposition to financial transparency, insistence on bottom-of-the-barrel spending on immigrant and refugee students and frontline...
Attorney General Madigan Student Loan Bill of Rights Passes Senate
AG Madigan & Sen. Daniel Biss Applaud Passage of Senate Bill 1351 to Better Illinois Student Loan Borrowers ...
Proposed New Charter School in Elgin Awarded $950,000 in Federal Start-up Grants From Charter Schools Program
Charter school will offer families an innovative approach to learning ELGIN, IL – The Illinois State Board of Education...
