SPRINGFIELD, IL – (Greg Bishop, Illinois News Network. Please click on the link above for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
Wednesday’s House session on school funding reform was postponed late Tuesday after legislative leaders held “productive” negotiations on compromise legislation earlier in the day.
Meeting for several hours inside Speaker Michael Madigan’s Springfield office, House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs, said negotiations on Senate Bill 1, the Democrats’ plan that Republicans call a bailout of Chicago Public Schools’ failing pensions, progressed.
“We went through a lot of issues,” Durkin said, “down to the minutia. And to me, that is positive. It shows that there is a willingness to bring this to a negotiated settlement.”
Durkin wouldn’t divulge the details being negotiated. However, he said Republicans are unified in opposing an override of the governor’s changes to SB1, including removing hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funding that Rauner and other Republicans say is a bailout of CPS’ pension system by suburban and downstate taxpayers.
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