New Panel on School Funding Reform: A Move in the Right Direction

BPI Executive Director Hoy McConnell was quoted earlier this week in a Cook County Record article about the new Illinois School Funding Reform Commission, saying it was encouraging news.  From the article:

BPI has represented plaintiffs in lawsuits challenging the state’s school funding system, including in 2005 when BPI filed a lawsuit on behalf of poor school districts against the Illinois Board of Education on the basis that funding favored wealthy areas. That lawsuit went to the Illinois Supreme Court, but was rebuffed.

“The heart of our case was exactly what is being considered now for a legislative approach to reform the school funding formula,” McConnell told the Cook County Record.

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