Officials must act now to make safety as important as innovation.

Americans across the partisan divide seem increasingly fed up with school voucher schemes, which funnel public funds to unaccountable private entities. Even Betsy DeVos’s lobbying group is getting ner...

“We can’t go backward,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said, accusing his rivals of wanting to close schools and “militarize our streets.”

The vote Friday was the latest escalation in negotiations between the Cahokia Federation of Teachers and the Metro East school district that serves residents in Cahokia Heights and Sauget.

Illinois Education Association and Illinois Federation of Teachers released statements on the Lincoln-Way East, Homewood-Flossmoor incident.

Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add stronger child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47...

Lawsuit Seeks to Block Unconstitutional Postal Service Rule that Directs States to Overhaul Vote-by-Mail Procedures Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a coalition of 25 states, today filed a law...

Standardized testing, budget cuts and time constraints factor into decisions over whether students read more books or more excerpts.

Under a new rule, the designation allows students to take out $200,000 in federal student loans versus $100,000 for other graduate programs.

Our recent report asks a bold question: What would the United States look like if we tripled union membership? We find a range of economic and social benefits—such as higher wages, greater access to h...

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New research finds that raising union membership to 30 percent could boost wages by 14.5 percent, expand health coverage, reduce inequality, and restore economic power to working Americans.

More than 175,000 Votes Celebrate America’s Teachers in Simple Modern's 2026 Stock Your School Campaign The national back-to-school teacher appreciation campaign featured teachers and voting from all ...

Illinois will temporarily cut sales taxes on school supplies and many clothing purchases during back-to-school shopping.

Dolores Huerta, the civil rights icon who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America—which fights for the rights, safety, power and dignity of agricultural workers—was given the Lifetime Achievemen...

In her 2026 State of the Union address, AFT President Randi Weingarten reflects on the state of the nation, celebrates the power of working people, and calls on members to organize, vote and fight for...

Hillside, Ill. – On Friday, June 19, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch’s Juneteenth Festival is the place to be with a day of family…

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After a major Supreme Court ruling, state-level voting rights acts and redistricting strategies in Democratic-led states are among the limited ways left for protecting racial-minority voters' power.

In addition to highlighting educators’ concerns on student AI use, a poll by NPR and Ipsos found that 3 in 5 teachers use AI on the job.

Hill and Rainey: Most school district leaders know their finances are in serious trouble. Most aren’t saying so publicly. That is part of the problem.

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Schools across the U.S. are starting to rethink the abundance of digital devices in classrooms. After pouring billions of dollars into laptops, tablets and learning apps, a growing number of schools s...

Treasurer Maria Pappas' office estimates legislation under consideration in Springfield would save the Bears some $1.5 billion that would otherwise go to local taxing bodies.

“At a moment when the Trump administration has ended SNAP benefits for an estimated two million Illinoisans, cut healthcare benefits, and dismantled the department of education, it’s hard to understan...

Critics say employers spend money hiring union-avoidance consultants and lawyers while not investing in workers