Aug 31, 2017
Illinois lawmakers this week approved and Gov. Bruce Rauner today signed into law Senate Bill 1947, which modernizes the state’s education funding formula and introduces a five-year Scholarship Tax Credit. This new program offers access to a quality education...
Aug 29, 2017
The Illinois Senate today passed Senate Bill 1947, following up on the House's approval yesterday of the landmark legislation that overhauls the state's education funding formula and introduces a five-year Scholarship Tax Credit program. The governor is...
Aug 28, 2017
Aug. 28, 2017 show Mary Massingale, CCI's director of communications, fills in as host since Bob Gilligan was in Springfield lobbying for the Scholarship Tax Credit. Sarah Brune, executive director of the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, joins Mary to talk...
Aug 3, 2017
UPDATE: Read our statement on final passage of education funding legislation, which includes the Scholarship Tax Credit. An initiative that would give low- and middle-income students expanded opportunities in the school they attend is in the mix as Illinois lawmakers...
Jul 17, 2017
July 17, 2017 show After two years of gridlock, Illinois finally has a fully-funded budget — and an income tax increase. Jack Tichenor, interim director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University and longtime statehouse journalist,...
Jul 6, 2017
Illinois lawmakers today ended a record-setting, two-year budget impasse by overriding Gov. Bruce Rauner’s vetoes of a spending plan and an income tax increase. Today’s action eases some of the tension spawned by a highly acrimonious stalemate between the...
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