As the state budget stalemate drags through its 10th month, school funding has emerged as one of those pivotal issues that has the potential to coerce lawmakers into compromise. After all, neither party wants to be the reason that schools don’t open in the fall. But there’s a big battle brewing over the question of how we should fund schools.
Joshua Cauhorn doesn’t have a dog in this hunt. He’s not a lobbyist, he’s not a consultant, he’s not even a dad. A recent graduate of Loyola University law school, he wrote a law review article tracing the history of funding reform back to constitutional convention of 1970.
Cauhorn talked to NPR Illinois about how Illinois arrived at its current system of funding, and he assess some of the current plans on the table. You can listen to excerpts of the interview here.
