Have teachers unions become instruments of injustice? One judge in California thinks the answer is ’yes’

By Paul Kersey

06/12/2014

In a ruling that has already sent shockwaves through public education, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu found in Vergara v. California that five California laws governing the hiring, firing and laying off of teachers – laws that teachers unions favor – violated the California Constitution’s equal protection clause, and should be struck...

Nearly 72 percent of Illinois Medicaid cases reviewed last week had eligibility errors

By Jonathan Ingram

10/02/2013

In January, the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, or HFS, began a new project verifying eligibility for Illinois’ 2.7 million Medicaid enrollees. For years, state workers had failed to take adequate steps to ensure the people receiving Medicaid benefits were actually eligible for the program. As an Auditor General report noted, state workers failed to...

TAGS: AFSCME: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, audit, Medicaid

More than 150,000 Medicaid enrollees found ineligible for the program

By Jonathan Ingram

09/26/2013

TAGS: AFSCME: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, audit, HFS: Healthcare and Family Services, Medicaid, Pat Quinn

North Carolina ends teacher tenure

08/07/2013

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a landmark budget bill last week – one that is full of education reforms, including the end of teacher tenure in the state. Tenure doesn’t guarantee a teacher a job for life. But it does make it much more difficult for a district to let go of a...

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Illinois vs. Missouri

03/31/2013

Scott Reeder Illinois News Network Do folks in the Show-Me State have a greater love of taxes than in the Land of Lincoln? Well, at first blush, thats what you might think if you looked at the results of a study Americans for Prosperity shared with me. Voters in both states went to the polls...

A wrinkle in the taxes

03/31/2013

Scott Reeder Illinois News Network Politicians love to pander. And no one gets pandered to more than old folks. A good case in point is what Gov. Pat Quinn did this week. He signed Senate Bill 1894, which raises the senior homestead exemption from $4,000 to $5,000. Quinn claims this will save seniors as much...

Pat Quinn: Our do-nothing governor

01/31/2013

Sometimes it seems Gov. Pat Quinn vacillates more than a pendulum on a grandfather clock.

Quinn owns 11 of Illinois’ 20 credit downgrades

12/31/2012

Standard and Poors Rating Services just dropped Illinois credit rating to A- from A. There is not another state in the union with credit as lousy as ours. We are worse off than California.

Taxpayers feel the pinch, as Illinois spends

12/31/2012

Is your wallet a little thinner these days?

The next two years in Illinois

11/09/2012

Neither Illinois Senate President John Cullerton nor House Speaker Mike Madigan will have a Republican boogeyman to point to when they speak to interest groups or members of their own caucuses.

Scott Reeder

Have teachers unions become instruments of injustice? One judge in California thinks the answer is ’yes’

Nearly 72 percent of Illinois Medicaid cases reviewed last week had eligibility errors

More than 150,000 Medicaid enrollees found ineligible for the program

North Carolina ends teacher tenure

Illinois vs. Missouri

A wrinkle in the taxes

Pat Quinn: Our do-nothing governor

Quinn owns 11 of Illinois’ 20 credit downgrades

Taxpayers feel the pinch, as Illinois spends

The next two years in Illinois

Chicago Forward 2026: A pro-growth plan to end city budget deficits

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Diana Graham

Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students