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The Illinois State Board of Education filed the paperwork Thursday requesting extra money for all 852 public school districts in the state. It’s the first…
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Gov. Bruce Rauner has claimed his top accomplishment of last year was transforming the way Illinois funds public schools. But the dollars pledged by that…
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Illinois’s new school funding plan — approved in August and hailed as a historic change — relies on the legislature to give every school the same state…
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One promise heard repeatedly during debate over the state's new school funding plan was that no schools would get less funding than before. But lawmakers…
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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner put his signature today on a bill that redefines how Illinois public schools are funded. But it also will send overdue money to…
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The Illinois Senate has approved a new system for funding schools that will reduce large disparities between wealthy and poor districts.Legislators voted…
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Gov. Bruce Rauner has been drumming up opposition to the Democrats' school-funding plan, known as Senate Bill 1, by touting how much more money each…
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Some Republican lawmakers say the Illinois State House of Representatives may not have the votes to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of a school funding…
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A school district superintendent in southeast Champaign County supports Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, the school funding…
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Illinois Senate President John Cullerton says he will send the governor a bill today that overhauls the way the state distributes money to schools.The new…