All that work on SB1 was just tossed out the window

[TexasTowelie]

The education funding reform bill which passed the House and Senate in May and was finally sent to Gov. Bruce Rauner’s desk in July was the product of four years of research, endless listening tours and lots of hard bargaining.

The House Democrats changed some things at the last minute to benefit Chicago and the governor didn’t like it, but his own education czar claimed the governor still approved of “90 percent” of the legislation.

However, when Rauner issued his amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1 this week, he introduced a bunch of new ideas that had never been on the table, including during endless discussions among members of his own education funding reform commission.

These new ideas are poisoning the already putrid Statehouse water and are prompting some folks to suspect that the governor’s new top staffers from the Illinois Policy Institute are attempting to sabotage the bill.

Read more: https://capitolfax.com/2017/08/07/all-that-work-on-sb1-was-just-tossed-out-the-window/

[mopinko]

1. every time i hear his veto excuse- it is a bailout for chicago schools-

i think- and? that's a problem?

chicago alone bears the full brunt of their teacher pensions. i wish they could have gotten obama to work out a deal on that shit. they could have turned some of the money over to ss, gotten rid of that stupid exemption, and at least had the teachers guaranteed that much.
then get the feds to chip in for some of the rest. let the state match it. let chi match it. problem solved.

it is so stupid that teachers have this exemption. makes the whole pension debate so much more fraught.