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Hello! It’s me, Becky Vevea, your friendly, sleepy bureau chief.

My colleague Matt Barnum recently looked at an interesting trend in national education data. Adjusted for inflation, school funding has increased substantially, but teacher salaries have not. Read more from him on why that is.

And later today, we’ll have more on the first televised Chicago school board presidential debate on WTTW last night. My colleague Reema Amin and I were there and got to talk to the candidates, students, and others in the audience.

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Chicago School Board President Candidates Talk Budgets, Closures and Why This Election Matters in WTTW Forum, WTTW

Indian Prairie District 204 saw fewer aggression, technology-based student infractions last year, officials say, Chicago Tribune (Paywall)

12-year-old student fires gun found in unattended bag on Chicago school bus, man arrested: Police, ABC News