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Should Illinois Eliminate the State Grocery Tax?

Should Illinois Eliminate the State Grocery Tax?

What Happened to Illinois’ Open Data Movement?

What Happened to Illinois’ Open Data Movement?

Was Illinois Debt Disproportionately Penalized by the Market During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Was Illinois Debt Disproportionately Penalized by the Market During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

A pension “crisis” mentality won’t help

A pension “crisis” mentality won’t help

Linking Social and Emotional Learning Standards to the Social-Emotional Competency Assessment (SECA)

Linking Social and Emotional Learning Standards to the Social-Emotional Competency Assessment (SECA)

Improving tax increment financing (TIF) for economic development

Improving tax increment financing (TIF) for economic development

Using 21st-century cameras to gather full-day/full-week streams of video in preschool classrooms with minimal disruption

Using 21st-century cameras to gather full-day/full-week streams of video in preschool classrooms with minimal disruption

Who owns educational products that are developed with public dollars, and the rights to distribute them?

Who owns educational products that are developed with public dollars, and the rights to distribute them?

New Insights Regarding the Reliability and Validity of the CLASS Pre-K, a Measure Being Used in High-Stakes Policy Monitoring of Early Childhood Classroom

New Insights Regarding the Reliability and Validity of the CLASS Pre-K, a Measure Being Used in High-Stakes Policy Monitoring of Early Childhood Classroom

How Can Teachers Best Support Young Children’s Emotional Competence?

How Can Teachers Best Support Young Children’s Emotional Competence?

The use of business property tax incentives in Cook County, Illinois

The use of business property tax incentives in Cook County, Illinois

Rethinking high-stakes use of observational measures of preschool quality

Rethinking high-stakes use of observational measures of preschool quality

No Magic Bullet: Constructing a Roadmap for Illinois Fiscal Sustainability

No Magic Bullet: Constructing a Roadmap for Illinois Fiscal Sustainability

The Geography of Family Differences and Intergenerational Mobility

The Geography of Family Differences and Intergenerational Mobility

Tools to assess budgetary concerns

Tools to assess budgetary concerns

The Feds giveth and the Feds taketh away

The Feds giveth and the Feds taketh away

First you stop digging: Projections of Illinois’ fiscal imbalance and paths to remedy it

First you stop digging: Projections of Illinois’ fiscal imbalance and paths to remedy it

Budget Enforcement Mechanisms

Budget Enforcement Mechanisms

Fiscal Futures Project Documentation

Fiscal Futures Project Documentation

Passing health care costs to employees

Passing health care costs to employees

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