SPRINGFIELD, IL – (Greg Bishop and Dan McCaleb, Illinois News Network. Please click on the link above for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
Monday is shaping up to be the day in the battle over a state education funding reform bill that one lawmaker says will result in more tax increases. That’s when Senate President John Cullerton says he will finally send Gov. Bruce Rauner an education funding measure that also bails out Chicago Public Schools’ pensions.
For the third consecutive day Friday, lawmakers in the House and the Senate adjourned their special sessions just minutes after convening, taking no action.
Rauner on Friday again criticized Cullerton and House Speaker Michael Madigan for holding up Senate Bill 1, the education bill that would create an evidence-based model for school funding as well as send CPS an additional $215 million in state taxpayer money annually to pay down its critically underfunded pension system
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