Will Davis

When lawmakers made performance-based budgeting the law in Illinois, they promised it would transform the way the state spends money. But after years of…

The agency overseeing what’s been dubbed the nation’s worst-funded public-school system plans to hire “storytellers” to relay tales of successes in…

The Illinois Senate has approved a new system for funding schools that will reduce large disparities between wealthy and poor districts.Legislators voted…

Lawmakers of both parties -- and even Gov. Bruce Rauner -- agree that Illinois doesn't fund schools in an equitable manner. But a bill that would overhaul…