Quad-City Times, July 13, 2017
After two years, Illinois finally got a budget last week, but you won’t find anybody in charge of Quad-City area schools breathing a sigh of relief.
Educators are still worried about the prospect that state aid won’t flow from Springfield this fall because — so far, anyway — lawmakers and Gov. Bruce Rauner haven’t been able to come to a deal on how to reform the state’s flawed K-12 funding formula.