After a major Supreme Court ruling, state-level voting rights acts and redistricting strategies in Democratic-led states are ...

Illinois will soon join 35 states that have already prohibited or limited cellphone use in classrooms after state lawmakers ...

Many school districts cover teachers’ required pension contribution of 9% of their salary — putting that burden on taxpayers.

The Illinois General Assembly is considering extending unemployment benefits to public school support staff during the 10 to 11 weeks of summer break. While the measures have stalled, the bill’s House ...

Dozens of northern Dublin City Schools parents and students packed a sidewalk along Glick Road in Delaware County to protest the district's high school redistricting efforts. The protesters don't want ...

As soon as former Manheim Township School District Superintendent Caroline Pate-Hefty leaves the district’s payroll at the end of June, she could begin working as a special education administrator for ...

Families across the Chicago area may have no idea they’re being watched. What’s at stake? Their children’s public education. An NBC 5 Responds investigation exposed how some school districts use ...

The “majority-minority” House districts struck down by the Supreme Court last week sent a surge of Black and Hispanic lawmakers to Congress. They also opened opportunities for the G.O.P. By Carl Hulse ...

A circuit judge on Friday ruled in favor of sending the banking industry's lawsuit attempting to block the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act back to a district court in Illinois for further ...

Tennessee’s Republican-led Legislature passed a new congressional map dividing up the state’s lone majority-Black district, swiftly responding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s major redistricting ruling ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched investigations into three dozen Illinois school districts, alleging that they may have failed to allow parents to “opt out” of lessons involving LGBTQ ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Dozens of states have taken action to curb cell phone use in schools. Now, this month Illinois lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill to limit what some educators claim is a major ...