IL House not expected to vote on SB1 veto

“As recently as 2001, the CPS [Chicago Public Schools] pension plan was 99 percent funded, but after (then-Mayor Richard) Daley skipped payments everything was drove in the tank”, Wehrli told the DuPage Policy Journal.

Although state legislators passed a budget last month after overriding the governor’s veto – the state’s first budget in more than two years – schools can not receive funding until lawmakers pass an education-aid distribution bill.

Alternative resolutions could include an override accompanied by a tandem piece of legislation that makes accommodations for Republicans and other critics, or a totally new measure.

The state Senate is expected to return to regular session at 2 p.m. Sunday with the intention of taking action on education funding.

House Speaker Michael Madigan, a Democrat from Chicago, slammed GOP members who would not support the legislation, which incorporated the expansive changes Rauner made in an amendatory veto.

“Number one, it creates a cliff”.

“Because it’s one-year money”, Sanders says.

While no districts will be unable to open, many face the possibility of running out of money during the school year.

McCann expands on how this issue would affect west central IL.

Wilson’s contingency plans looks something like this: If the state does not approve a funding mechanism, he’s hoping his district can use some of the $300,000 in property taxes he expects it to receive by early October.

Morris 101 would receive $65,696 less under Rauner’s plan than SB1 while Gardner Elementary 72C would receive $78,865 less and Gardner-South Wilmington 73 would receive $26,405. Some of his most significant changes wouldn’t kick in until July 2020.

While Rauner and most lawmakers agree the formula needs fixing, they’re tripped up on exactly how to fix it. “Again, that’s one year money, and it will go away”. “Absent of some type of different approach this year to the budget, that’s exactly the path we’re going down today”.

“What my amendatory veto did was just take out the special deal for Chicago”.

The third aspect of Rauner’s veto that concerns McCann is a change after a few years from a per-district model to a per-pupil model.

Rauner used his veto authority to strip $450 million from Chicago Public Schools. There are 67 Democrats in the House. He said the governor’s priority is a controversial $100 million school voucher program. Will Davis (D-Homewood) put Rauner’s veto language into a new bill to gauge support.

The House has 13 days to override Rauner’s veto. Republican senators Bill Brady and Jason Barickman from Bloomington and Chapin Rose from Mahomet voted against the override.