February, 2018 Stories | Dupage Policy Journal

Statewide test results: 63 percent of Adams failed English language arts

By Local Labs News Service | Feb 26, 2018

About 37 percent of Adams School students passed annual English language arts assessments in 2017 and 63 percent of students failed.

Statewide test results: 68 percent of Adams students failed math

By Local Labs News Service | Feb 26, 2018

About 32 percent of Adams School students passed annual math assessments in 2017 and 68 percent of students failed.

Analysis: 66 percent of Adams students fail annual tests

By Local Labs News Service | Feb 26, 2018

Academic results data released recently reveals 34 percent of Adams School students are considered on track for the next grade level.

Carbondale Community High School District 165 Board of Education met Feb. 22.

By Angelica Saylo Pilo | Feb 26, 2018

Carbondale Community High School District 165 Board of Education met at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22.

Carbondale Elementary School District #95 Board of Education met Feb. 22.

By Angelica Saylo Pilo | Feb 26, 2018

Carbondale Elementary School District #95 Board of Education met at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22.

Illinois Heartland Library System Board will meet Feb. 27.

By Angelica Saylo Pilo | Feb 26, 2018

Illinois Heartland Library System Board will meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27.

Jackson County Board of Review will meet March 7.

By Angelica Saylo Pilo | Feb 26, 2018

Jackson County Board of Review will meet Wednesday, March 7.

Murphysboro Community Unit School District 186 Board of Education met January 16

By Corazon L. Gonzales | Feb 26, 2018

Murphysboro Community Unit School District 186 Board of Education met 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 16.

Jackson County Board of Review will meet March 1

By Corazon L. Gonzales | Feb 26, 2018

Jackson County Board of Review will meet at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 1.

Jackson County Board of Review will meet March 5

By Corazon L. Gonzales | Feb 26, 2018

Jackson County Board of Review will meet at 4 p.m. Monday, March 5.

Analysis: Carbondale SNAP participation costs fell 15 percent over two years

By LGIS Newsfeed | Feb 23, 2018

Welfare offices in Murphysboro and Marion saw food stamp costs drop by an average of 15 percent from January 2015 to January 2017, according to a Carbondale Reporter analysis of 66 Illinois welfare offices.

SB2302 would extend tax increment financing in Marion

By Angela Underwood | Feb 22, 2018

The city of Marion could grow even bigger due to recent legislation from Sen. Dale Fowler (R-Harrisburg).

From SW Illinois News

CORRECTED: Ad calls Bryant a 'Madigan pawn'

By Glenn Minnis | 6 years ago

State Rep. Terri Bryant (R-Murphysboro) is portrayed as having “served up” her constituents in the 115th House District in a new Liberty Principles PAC ad on YouTube ridiculing her as a pawn of powerful House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago).

From Southern Illinois News

Heated debate marks Senate panel hearing on veterans' home

By Angela Underwood | 6 years ago

Before Sen. Thomas Cullerton (D-Villa Park), chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, could adjourn a recent hearing involving a 2016 engineering report on the Quincy Veterans' Home, Sens. Paul Schimpf (R-Waterloo) and Dale Righter (R-Mattoon) made it clear the short notice for a hearing does not give Democrats the right to judge Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration for not addressing the Legionnaires' outbreak at the facility.

From Prairie State Wire

Analysis: Illinois residents pay up to 99 percent more to attend Division I schools than peers in other states

By Local Labs News Service | 6 years ago

Illinois residents pay up to 76 percent more to attend a Big Ten school and up to 49 percent more to attend a Mid-America Conference school than their counterparts in other states, according to a Higher Education Tribune’s analysis of in-state tuition at public colleges and universities in 10 Midwest states.