
What is the Connection Between Home Values and School Performance?
Families often choose the location of their next home by where their children will go to school. As focus on school performance has...

How Schools Can Impact Home Prices
There is no denying that the quality of nearby schools can impact the price of a home. But while this fact has always...
FRONTLINE: The Pension Gamble
"The Pension Gamble" goes inside the volatile fight over pensions that’s playing out in one state, and examines the broader consequences for teachers,...
ENGAGE. A Civic Engagement Initiative
In an effort to promote a culture of civic responsibility and to engage students in democratic participation and activism, students in Township High...
How is civics education being implemented in Illinois public schools?
In this PowerPoint, Dr. Shawn Healy outlines how the Robert R. McCormick Foundation and others have made civics education legislation alive through a...
ISBE Data Analysis: Supply and Demand
2017 Supply and Demand Report: https://www.isbe.net/Documents/ed-supply-demand-2017.pdf Relative Supply and Demand for Educators Supply Indicators Supply includes all educational personnel available to the schools,...
Local 1211 Member LoriAnne Frieri a Finalist for Teacher of the Year
Three IFT members were among the outstanding teachers named this week as finalists in the 2019 Illinois State Board of Education’s annual “Those Who...
Local 1211 Vice President and Wife Among Those Recognized for Life Saving Heroics
A woman who hopes to train service dogs and therapy dogs was 10 minutes away from her friend's house in Hampshire when she...
Women's March Chicago
http://womens121marchonchicago.org/spread-the-word-2018-2/
Story Corps/US Library of Congress - Profiles in Civic Engagement Project
Citizen Advocacy Center (https://www.citizenadvocacycenter.org/about-us.html) is looking for students to interview community members who CAC has worked with over the years and to document...