Peter Hancock
ReporterPeter Hancock joined the Capitol News Illinois team as a reporter in January 2019.
Before that, Hancock covered Kansas state government for much of the past two decades. For the previous 4 years, Hancock had been the statehouse reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World. He provided year-round daily coverage of the Kansas Statehouse, state government, appellate courts, elections and Kansas’ congressional delegation. He previously worked for 8 years as a statehouse reporter for Kansas Public Radio, and with the Kansas Health Policy Authority and the Kansas Education Policy Report.
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Programs serve thousands of students in low-performing and high-poverty schools
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Newly-elected Justices O’Brien, Rochford challenged over campaign donations
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AG Raoul says company targeted children, caused public health crisis
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Task force would review use of edTPA exam
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Some districts could operate for years on money they’ve stashed away
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Minors featured in commercial vlogs would have to be compensated
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Sponsor earlier reported spread of misinformation, threats of violence
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Libraries would be disqualified from state grants
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Opinions vary about benefits, cost and complexity of multichoice ballots
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Measure would apply state’s Child Labor Law to ‘influencer’ videos