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Sex Ed Week at Evanston H.S. means the birds, bees and much more

By North Cook News | May 22, 2017

What's "Semantic Drift"? Evanston high school parents will soon be able to ask their kids.

Mussman proposes property tax hike on businesses

By North Cook News | Apr 25, 2017

Rep Michelle Mussman (D-Schaumburg) wants to raise property taxes on businesses and some homeowners.

Governor hopeful Biss paid 24x more property tax than income tax

By North Cook News | Apr 21, 2017

Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston), candidate for Illinois governor, paid $8,439 in property taxes in 2016, or 26 percent of his $32,568 adjusted gross income, according to tax returns he made public this week.

New Trier cancels mandatory all-school "white privilege" seminar

By North Cook News | Apr 19, 2017

The district administrator who spearheaded New Trier High School's controversial, mandatory all-school "white privilege" seminar says he isn't planning to organize one next year.

Should North Shore public schools set lower academic, discipline standards for black and hispanic students? Activist to make the case.

By North Cook News | Apr 15, 2017

Pedro Noguera, a UCLA professor and leading advocate of public schools establishing lower standards for black and hispanic students, will lay out his philosophy to North Shore teachers and students in Highland Park Monday.

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$999 million out, $90 million in: Chicago pension funds see the abyss, shrug it off

By North Cook News | Apr 11, 2017

In 2015, the City of Chicago’s two employee pension funds paid out $999 million to 29,286 retirees.

$1.06M per fire isn’t quite enough for Rolling Meadows property taxpayers

By North Cook News | Mar 17, 2017

Glen Ellyn, pop. 27,761, is home to three thousand more people than Rolling Meadows. It has $41 million less firefighter pension debt.

Rosemont, Orland Park mayoral pay ranks among tops in the... world?

By North Cook News | Mar 15, 2017

Tokyo has 13.29 million people. Rosemont has just over 4,200.But at $260,000 per year, Rosemont Mayor Brad Stephens outearns his counterpart in Japan’s largest city, Yuriko Koike, by nine percent.

Madigan, Chicago Dems eye Maine Township school board

By North Cook News | Mar 2, 2017

Maine Township District 207 School Board candidate Aurora Austriaco has friends in high places.

Veering left, education advocacy group pushes identity politics at New Trier

By North Cook News | Feb 27, 2017

Since 2010, Stand for Children Illinois has lobbied for charter schools, for reforming teacher tenure and ensuring more students take standardized tests.

New Trier paid second “white privilege” consultant $109K to train its teachers

By North Cook News | Feb 22, 2017

New Trier High School District 203 has paid $108,583 in consulting fees to second group dedicated to spreading a philosophy of “white privilege” to U.S. high school teachers, according to a North Cook News analysis of district financial records.

At New Trier, "white privilege" training mandatory for teachers, too

By North Cook News | Feb 21, 2017

This semester, New Trier Social Studies Teacher Spiro Bolos has lectured his students on “structural racism” and how it has created a “racial wealth gap.”

State GOP: Madigan’s democracy talk ‘doublespeak’ for dictatorship

By North Cook News | Feb 20, 2017

Republicans say that, in Illinois, there exists a democracy of one — Mike Madigan, to be exact — with the longtime House speaker managing affairs as if the state were a dictatorship rather than a system of egalitarianism.

Illinois Opportunity Project co-founders: Term limits in Illinois not short-term solution

By North Cook News | Feb 20, 2017

Term limits are not a short-term solution to Illinois' financial problems, and when or if they are implemented, such limits must be done right or the result will be more of the same, co-founders of a conservative nonprofit said during a recent Chicago-based radio broadcast.