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In recent years, neighboring states such as Wisconsin and Indiana have enacted landmark education reform. But here in Illinois, many of these reforms have yet to be implemented. On Tuesday, an education policy researcher from the nonpartisan Illinois Policy Institute will discuss how Illinois can reform its government school system in a way that improves...
Illinois Policy Institute Director of Health Policy Naomi Lopez Bauman joined Mike Flannery and Darlene Hill on Fox Chicago to break down ObamaCare and separate fact from fiction.
Startling statistics: 75% of students in Chicago’s lowest-performing elementary schools do not meet state standards in reading and math; 95% of students in Chicago’s lowest-performing high schools struggle with basic algebra and summarizing reading assignments There is a lot of talk in Chicago about “struggling public schools” and “fixing public education.” But year after year,...
Today, proponents of a progressive tax hike plan to lobby in Springfield in support of higher taxes on the middle class – Here’s five reasons why a progressive tax hike is wrong for Illinois Across the state, tax hike advocates are laying the groundwork for Illinois to abandon its flat income tax in favor of...
All county-level governments except one in the Champaign-area fail online transparency audit In the age of the internet, it’s never been easier to keep the public informed about what government is doing. But a recent audit of government websites statewide found that county-level governments are underperforming when it comes to online transparency. Iroquois, Vermilion, Ford,...
Jacob Huebert, senior attorney with the Liberty Justice Center, joined Good Day Monday to talk about the ‘Amazon tax’ being struck down and what it means for Illinois.
Illinois Policy Institute has experts available to break down the ruling. Why was the law struck down and what does it mean? What was the “Amazon Tax” and why was it bad? MEDIA AVAILABILITY: Jacob Huebert, senior attorney at the Liberty Justice Center, is available to comment on the ruling and what it means. Ted Dabrowski,...
Will Congress beat the debt limit clock? Or is the United States facing default? Chicago Tonight panelists included Ted Dabrowski, Vice President of Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, Richard Baehr, AmericanThinker.com co-founder and chief political correspondent, David Merriman, Professor for the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Department of Public Administration, and Michael Mezey, Political Science Professor at DePaul University.