Politics & Government
How a Property Tax Freeze, New School Funding Formula Could Break the Stalemate in Springfield
Will suburban legislators oppose any efforts to change the state's school funding formula if property taxes are frozen?
A few weeks back, three Democratic senators talked to reporters in Springfield about a concept that would both freeze property taxes in Illinois for a few years and sunset the state’s school funding formula in a few years.
It’s a coupling that Illinois Senate President John Cullerton had been promoting earlier and continues to push as the start to some sort of solution to the current stalemate between Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic super majorities in the Senate and House.
The ideas haven’t attracted all that much attention, but they could be a means of tackling two thorny challenges that touch just about every Illinois resident.
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State Sen. Dan Kotowski, a Park Ridge Democrat, was one of the Democrats promoting the idea, along with state Sen. Kimberly Lightford, a Maywood Democrat, and state Sen. Andy Manar, a downstate Bunker Hill Democrat. The three of them represent the three regions of the state often at odds with each other…
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