school funding formula

Less than an hour before Gov. Bruce Rauner was scheduled to deliver his State of the State address, lawmakers in the House and Senate voted to override…

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…

If you’ve seen Gov. Bruce Rauner’s campaign commercials, you might think the school funding issue was settled last summer. But as often happens with…

Gov. Bruce Rauner has boasted that fixing the woefully inequitable Illinois school-funding formula was his top accomplishment of the past year.But he…

When it comes to funding public schools, Gov. Bruce Rauner has wavered a bit.A few months ago, he vetoed a major funding reform bill, saying it sent too…

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…

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…

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…

House Democrats called a vote Wednesday on legislation that incorporates the changes that Gov. Bruce Rauner wants in a new formula for financing public…

Schools are still waiting on their main payment from Illinois government, as Democrats and Republicans continue to fight over how to divvy up the…