State Board of Education

If advocates, stakeholders and members of the public were granted all their requests for public school funding next year, lawmakers would have to increase the state’s K-12 education budget by nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars.

The House has approved a plan pushed by the Democratic state comptroller to require Illinois governors to pay employees from their budgets, not those of…

The state's education chief says that the $350 million boost promised to public schools this year will be distributed beginning in April. State schools…

Three years after Illinois changed how science would be taught and tested, performance data still isn't available because schools haven't seen science…

A federal law known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, requires every state to make sure kids become proficient in core subjects, and continue to…

A measure pending in the Illinois legislature would give parents the right to have their children skip standardized tests associated with the Common Core…