Katie Finlon

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@Daily_Chronicle local gov't reporter. Past @KCRNewspapers @wnijnews @NIUNorthernStar. ❤️/Follow/RT ≠ endorse. She/Her. Always looking for a good pierogi.
NOV 22, 2024
Pictured: An illustration depicting a modern classroom. [Wesley Fryer / CC BY 2.0]

Following the changing Illinois public education landscape after the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, education leaders from five statewide organizations in Illinois announced on Friday the statewide education initiative Vision 2030. 

Among the plan’s main focuses are attracting and retaining high-quality teachers, addressing student and school safety and striving for more success for students after high school, including encouraging more trades apprenticeship and armed forces opportunities to interested students, according to the plan’s creators.

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Illinois education leaders announce Vision 2030, new plan addressing teacher retention, student safety, post-secondary career opportunities

Pictured: An illustration depicting a modern classroom. [Wesley Fryer / CC BY 2.0] Following the ...
NOV 14, 2024
Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn talks to reporters about voters being in favor of a proposed non-binding millionaire tax referendum during a Nov. 12, 2024 press conference in Springfield. [Livestream]

Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn said state voters showed sizable support for a graduated income tax structure affecting millionaires that would help give homeowners property tax relief. 

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Majority of voters in favor of millionaire income tax, property tax relief advisory referendum, former Gov. Pat Quinn says

Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn talks to reporters about voters being in favor of a proposed non-b...

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@Daily_Chronicle local gov't reporter. Past @KCRNewspapers @wnijnews @NIUNorthernStar. ❤️/Follow/RT ≠ endorse. She/Her. Always looking for a good pierogi.