State Funding

Early intervention providers and advocates are calling for increased state funding to help infants and toddlers with developmental disabilities.

Mayors across Illinois are joining forces to urge lawmakers not to cut local funding to balance the next state budget. The coalition of mayors and…

The Illinois Department of Corrections says a major cash crunch has it struggling to keep its facilities running. The warning came Wednesday at a Senate…

The board of trustees at Western Illinois University has voted to keep costs for the 2018-2019 school year at current levels.The decision means…

Around 50 protestors gathered in downtown Moline Monday afternoon to protest what they see as Bruce Rauner's failure to pass a budget.

Gov. Bruce Rauner wrapped a 10-city tour with a visit to a Champaign manufacturer Wednesday. As his call for budget reforms wrapped at HL Precision…

A Western Illinois University administrator said the school has enough money to make it through the Spring semester. But he's not saying much about the...

Last week, when Southern Illinois University revealed that its main campus in Carbondale needs to borrow money from its Edwardsville location, the news...

The effort to overhaul the way Illinois funds public schools has been gaining momentum over the past few years, and yesterday, the latest plan got the...

The state's ongoing budget deadlock has spurred the University of Illinois to ask its departments to cut an average of about 2% from their budgets.…