Illinois schools will soon resume receiving state funding, after Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bipartisan compromise that passed the House and Senate earlier in the week.
The legislation represents the culmination of years of negotiations — on top of decades of other failed attempts at reform — to send more state money to districts with more impoverished students and less property wealth.
Sean Crawford hosts with regular panelists Charlie Wheeler and Brian Mackey, and NPR Illinois Education Desk reporter Dusty Rhodes.
