This past week, the Rose Friedman Society women met to discuss a report on School Districts Consolidation in the New Trier Township. After an insightful discussion, we decided to launch a project to paint a picture of what streamlined...
Among the key candidates for government unit consolidation are the state’s 859 local school districts, which consume nearly two-thirds of the $27 billion in local property taxes that local governments across Illinois collect each year. Illinois has the fifth-largest...
“Many Americans apparently feel that policy is something done to them, rather than with them.” Pete Petersen, the dean of the Pepperdine School of Public Policy, suggests in is WSJ OpEd, that programs like his need some updates to teach how to further...
Recently the Illinois Policy Institute launch a Take Action page on their site. Which presents effectively the status of key bills and how your opinion can be expressed to your representatives.Here are some ways that legislators and the public are informed and...
In March, we discussed Taxation in Illinois, well the house is discussing a new progressive income tax that would impact IL small business owners. The General Assembly is on break this week and must vote on the legislation by May 8.Here’s what John Tillman from...
