Rauner pledged to work with Senate President John Cullerton, a Democrat from Chicago, to increase state support for education by focusing additional resources on low-income and rural schools without taking money away from other districts. “All of these people have come to public service for a goal, and being in a unified IT department will let them serve that objective in a much, much better way”.
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Governor Bruce Rauner touched on education during his State of the State address.
With the state going into its eighth month without a budget, she says enough is enough and it’s time to for lawmakers to come to an agreement.
Rep. Randy Frese, R-Paloma, said Rauner stood up for the Turnaround Agenda items that were a part of the governor’s campaign platform in 2014.
According to documents obtained by public radio, that includes a deal for pension relief he’s been negotiating with the Democratic President of the Senate.
Gov. Bruce Rauner says his administration is working to transform the way IL provides health and human services.
In a statement, the governor’s office says, “The Responsible Budget Coalition should know the first step in having a responsible budget is having a truly balanced budget”. Colleges and social services are making drastic cuts and average citizens are suffering while the Governor refuses to negotiate or ask the wealthiest to pay a dime more, despite a majority of IL voters who support exactly that. The state owes Lutheran Social Services $6 million.
From the state budget impasse’s impact on colleges and universities to a push to reform scho…
“The inability of our elected leaders to do their constitutionally mandated jobs and pass a budget is leading to systemic collapse of the safety net that we all rely on to keep kids and communities safe”, stressed Andrea Durbin, CEO of the Illinois Collaboration on Youth. Cullerton believes changes are possible in pension programs if state workers are given a choice between keeping cost-of-living increases in retirement or counting future raises when figuring benefits.
“We have systems that were built in 1974 when I was 2 years old”, Bhatt said.
She’s listed under the “spouse(s)” category while proclaiming she “is apparently so special she gets a $100,000 chief of staff while the rest of the state gets LITERALLY NOTHING”.
Since no budget has been reached yet, budget cuts to governmental programs for kids and seniors are at risk to continue.
Madigan said areas of compromise with Rauner have one thing in common.
Since the commission started meeting in March, its focus has been to study possible changes to sentencing laws, alternatives to incarceration and effective rehabilitation programs.
“There are winners and losers every year under the current formula”, Cullerton said. High school freshman Christian Washington attended a now-closed program for teenagers at a Chicago YMCA.
Radogno said Senate Republicans “are willing to tackle school funding reform – but it’s not the only place in IL ripe for reform”. He called me. He said he was going to have a press conference and he was supporting the concept [of consideration]. Thousands of university students are no longer getting state tuition grants.
He said the reduction in teen programming at the YMCA is concerning.
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“Change is hard, but, by working together, we can make it a reality”. They just go back to negotiating. “So, moving forward I think there’s a real effort to move to funding that will help downstate schools more”.
