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About 97 percent of ninth graders in 2020 were "on track" to graduate at Wheaton Warrenville South High School, where the four-year graduation rate was 95 percent that year, according to the latest Illinois schools report card by the Illinois State Board of Education. Simultaneously, 24 percent of 10th graders, 49 percent of 11th graders and 57 percent of 12th graders were taking early college courses, which offer students a chance to gain college credit before graduating high school. Illinois tracks several metrics to determine whether students are college-ready. But a high graduation rate i...

State Rep. Deanne Mazzochi (R-Elmhurst) questions Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s budget for FY2022, stating that last year was an “unaffordable spending spree” and “now the Governor and his majority want to double down, again.”   She pointed out that this year’s budget is another unbalanced budget similar to the one presented a year ago.  “We had a budget that wasn’t balanced last year and it won’t be balanced this year.  A nearly $5 billion bill backlog proves it.” Mazzochi continues to question the proposal that the governor referred to as closing the corporate loopholes in whi...

About 89 percent of ninth graders in 2020 were "on track" to graduate at Community High School, where the four-year graduation rate was 93 percent that year, according to the latest Illinois schools report card by the Illinois State Board of Education.

Ahead of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s budget address, House Republican Leader Jim Durkin demanded a balanced budget.

Fourteen Republican attorneys general have urged President Biden to reconsider his decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline, saying that the "symbolic act of virtue signaling" will do nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.