Gov. Bruce Rauner recently signed an immigration bill into law that many have criticized as moving Illinois a step closer to becoming a sanctuary state.
Illinois counties are failing in their obligations to reassess property values in their jurisdictions, forcing many residents to overpay on properties that have devalued, according to Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton).
Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) was angry but not surprised at the passage of the state's new public education funding bill, according to a press release.
Two representatives from the same party saw the same bill in strikingly different ways this week.
Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-42nd) was one of 34 House members to vote against the new state school funding formula contained in Senate Bill 1947 because its evidence-based model won't work, she said.
Rep. Jeanne Ives (R- Wheaton) warned her fellow representatives that the state's school funding bill that went to a vote on Monday is fundamentally flawed because it does not tie funding to student outcomes.
An evidence-based school funding model like Senate Bill 1 has won the support of many Democrats and Republicans, but Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) is not among their number.
Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) is pushing for an Illinois Department of Revenue investigation of property tax assessments and charges against any county assessor found to be in violation of assessment and valuation laws.
Reps. Peter Breen (R-Lombard) and Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) took House Democrats to task on Wednesday for calling a vote on an amendment to SB1947, a bill addressing chronic school absenteeism, rather than taking up the state's public education measure, Senate Bill 1.
Rep. Jeanne Ives, (R-Wheaton) has accused the Chicago Tribune of false reporting and political bias based on a recent article titled "‘Lawmaker compares teachers who support transgender rights to ‘dirty old men.’"
Administrators and teachers will get paid more, but students would gain nothing from an evidence-based school funding model, Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) contends.
DuPage County residents with questions or concerns about school funding can talk with some of their elected officials at a town hall meeting on Saturday at Lisle’s Benedictine University, according to a flier.
The politicians in Springfield are not going to keep the kids in Illinois from going to school, Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) asserted recently.
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Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) knows a lot of Illinoisans will be looking up on the night of Aug. 21, and she wants them to do it smartly.
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Rep. Jeanne Ives (R-Wheaton) takes issue not only with the special funding for Chicago Public Schools (CPS) that was included in Senate Bill 1 -- before being stripped of the provision by Gov. Bruce Rauner -- but with many other aspects of the school funding measure, according to a recent post on her website.