Rauner ed funding numbers criticized by Senate Democrat who won’t reveal basis for his own

https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/rauner-ed-funding-numbers-criticized-by-senate-democrat-who-won/article_8cea2b3a-7c4f-11e7-b127-0b1a520eab75.html

SPRINGFIELD, IL –  (Greg Bishop, Illinois News Network.  Please click on the link above for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

The Illinois State Board of Education is expected to soon release its analysis of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s suggested changes to the Democrats’ school funding reform bill.

Once the numbers are out, school districts will know how much money they can expect from the state under the plan put forward through Rauner’s amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, which passed in May but wasn’t sent to the governor’s desk until last week.

With more than 850 school districts across the state, Rauner said it takes time for the education board to crunch the numbers.

“It’s very complicated,” Rauner said. It’s “not easily done and the majority of the General Assembly knows it takes time and knows the state board of education won’t run new numbers until there’s a specific bill to run numbers from.”