Rauner Comments on New State Aid to Education Formula

A press release from Governor Bruce Rauner:

Gov. Rauner statement on Senate vote

“Today, members of the Illinois Senate voted in favor of legislation that will bring historic education reform to Illinois children and their families. First, I would like to thank Senate President John Cullerton and Senate Republican Leader Bill Brady and other members for working together to close the gap on school funding and making sure every child across the state will have access to the best education.

“For far too long, too many low-income students in our state have been trapped in underfunded, failing schools. The system needed to change. We have changed it. We have put aside our differences and put our kids first. It’s a historic day for Illinois.

“Our leaders worked together to provide school choice protection for parents who want the best education possible for their children. This is accomplished by ensuring that district-authorized charter schools receive equal funding, and by providing families with limited financial resources the same access to private schools. The Tax Credit Scholarship program encourages individuals and businesses to enable families to choose the school that best meets the needs of their children.

“This compromise also provides much-needed mandate relief for school districts and presents avenues for property tax relief. School districts will be given flexibility in how they schedule physical education curriculum and how they administer driver’s education curriculum. In more affluent school districts, this bill provides taxpayers with a chance to lower their property taxes through the referendum process.

“This is just the beginning of transforming education funding. I want Illinois to be the No. 1 state in the nation for education. Nothing is more important than educating our children.”


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Rauner Comments on New State Aid to Education Formula — 18 Comments

  1. Bruce Rauner is the governor of Illinois. Tic, tock, tic, tock…

  2. This is Senate Bill 1947 (SB 1947).

    It seems to have replaced Senate Bill 1 (SB 1) as the education funding bill of choice.

    The recently passed state budget (SB 6 Spending aka Appropriations, SB 9 Revenue including state income tax hike), SB 42 BIMP) required a new education funding formula to distribute state revenues to local school districts.

    SB 1947 apparently contains that new funding formula and some other new or changed legislation.

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    As far as the goal of being #1 in the nation for education.

    It is hopeless with the current pension problem and the current collective bargaining laws, union laws, state mandates for education, monopoly school district system, and other problems.

    We are spending too much money and racking up too much debt in pension interest as the result of pension unfunded liabilities.

    We have too much pension unfunded liabilities, which in turn is due to pension benefits and salaries being hiked to ridiculous levels as pensions were already underfunded.

    So we still have a big mess in public education.

    A really big mess.

    Thankfully there are some great teachers and administrators in that messed up system.

    But they notion they are all great and every school district is the best is absurd.

    That’s like saying every retailer is the best and all Wal-Mart’s are the best.

    It’s just union and administrator rhetoric to get the highest possible pay and benefits.

  3. Mr. Llavona is an ESL teacher in Maine Township High School District 207.

    Maine Twp HSD 207 is a very high paying school district in Cook County, with three high schools (Maine South, Maine West, Maine East) and an alternative school (Ralph J Frost Academy) covering parts of Des Plaines and Park Ridge.

    Governor Rauner proposed to give Maine Twp HSD 207 57% more than the Democrats under SB 1.

    http://www.illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2017/07/rauner-calls-on-senate-to-send-school-funding-bill-plans-to-amendatory-veto.html

    Governor Rauner signed SB 31 creating PA 100-0463 which states Illinois will not comply with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, a decision influenced by a ruling by a US Judge John Lee in the Northern District of Illinois.

    Governor Rauner signed SB 1933 creating PA 100-0464 which makes it easier for people to register for vote.

    All of that positively impacts the minorities whom Mr. Llavona purports to to represent.

    Does Mr. Llavona represent immigrants or a political ideology that no matter what dictates Democrats over Republicans.

    No matter what Governor Rauner did, it would never be good enough for Mr. Llavona.

    Unless Mr. Rauner switches to the Democrat party.

    The teacher union in the district is the Maine Teachers Association (MTA), IEA-NEA.

  4. No solution by Rauner and the Democrats to the underfunded pension mess in Illinois.

    No solution to the grossly overpaid salaries and benefits by teachers, their administrators and other government workers.

    No solution to the ongoing and absurd COLA given in the pensions to retired teachers and other government pensioners.

    For we in McHenry County could a solution for us be to secede from Illinois and ask Wisconsin to annex us?

    Has a county of any state ever joined an adjacent state?

    How does Woodstock, Wisconsin sound?

    Or McHenry, Wisconsin?

    Or Crystal Lake, Wisconsin?

  5. Did I hear a call to arms to secede from the state of Illinois? Something like our very own 21st century sunshine civil war between the McHenry county confederacy and the state of Illinois union? Next, more prodigious research for this immense sunshine readership: Bruce Vincent Rauner was elected governor of Illinois on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 running as the Republican Party candidate with 1,823,627 votes, defeating incumbent governor and re-election candidate for the Democratic Party, Patrick Joseph “Pat” Quinn, Jr. who obtained 1,681,343 votes. Bruce Vincent Rauner took the oath of office on January 12, 2015 for his first 4-year term as the 42nd governor of Illinois. Illinois became the 21st state of the union on December 3, 1818. Abraham Lincoln was 9 years old. Our sunshine blogger was 5 years old. Tic, tock, tic, tock

  6. Anyone who is vested in any of the grossly underfunded teachers pension funds in Illinois should be looking for some fiscal responsibility.

    The piper may well be paid with your pension, Mr. Llavona

  7. As we get closer and closer to Labor Day weekend, the sunshine blog’s immense readership pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. Let us all honor the American labor movement and the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, laws and well-being of this great United States of America. Tic, tock, tic, tock…

  8. Let us honor entrepreneurs and excellent CEOs, directors and managers of companies and businesses who have had the vision and expertise to find opportunities to build and expand businesses and with that provide jobs for workers.

    Without them, there would be no jobs for workers.

    For a number of decades now, workers in the private sector have decided to NOT be part of labor unions. Labor union membership is down drastically.

    Labor union membership is trending down and will be like dinosaurs who vanished from the earth.

  9. Illinois Policy Institute

    Illinois General Assembly Passes School Funding Plan, Tax Credit Scholarships

    August 29, 2017

    by Austin Berg

    – Senate Bill 1947 “…includes a $75 million tax credit scholarship program for low-income students.”

    “Under the plan, the scholarships would be funded with dollars put into a scholarship-granting organization by Illinois Citizens with an Illinois tax liability.

    “For every dollar donors give, they receive a 75-cent tax credit.”

    “However, CPS officials said the district would receive $150 million more under SB 1947 than they had anticipated, according to the Chicago Tribune.”

    “The fact that there would be so many winners under the amendatory veto – 831 school districts would receive more state funds – revealed how much districts across the state have been subsidizing Chicago for more than a decade.”

    http://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-general-assembly-passes-school-funding-plan-tax-credit-scholarships

  10. As we get closer and closer to Labor Day weekend, the sunshine blog’s immense readership pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. Among them, the elimination of child labor, opposed by the excellent CEO’s, directors and managers of companies and businesses of the past. Tic, tock, tic, tock…

  11. As we get closer and closer to Labor Day weekend, the sunshine blog’s immense readership pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. Among them, the eight hour work day and paid overtime, opposed by the excellent CEO’s, directors and managers of companies and businesses of the past. Tic, tock, tic, tock…

  12. Again I ask Angel, your pension will be at least twice mine.
    Tell me how you will help me pay for your pension. Tickle Tickle

  13. As we get closer and closer to Labor Day weekend, the sunshine blog’s immense readership pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. Among them, the right to organize and collective bargaining, opposed by the excellent CEO’s, directors and managers of companies and businesses of the past. Tic, tock, tic, tock…

  14. As we get closer and closer to Labor Day weekend, the sunshine blog’s immense readership pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers. Among them, the right to family and medical leave, opposed by the excellent CEO’s, directors and managers of companies and businesses of the past. Tic, tock, tic, tock…

  15. Senate Bill 1947 (SB 1947) in the 100th General Assembly also includes a tax credit scholarship program for low-income students to attend private schools.

    There are many eligibility rules and the program is set to automatically expire January 1, 2024.

    Some details are in the following article.

    The scholarships can be worth more for some students with disabilities and some English learners.

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    Illinois Policy Institute

    Is Your Family Eligible for Illinois’ Tax Credit Scholarships?

    August 30, 2017

    by Mindy Ruckman

    http://www.illinoispolicy.org/is-your-family-eligible-for-illinois-tax-credit-scholarships

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