No Movement On 1st Day Of Illinois Special Session On School Funding

SPRINGFIELD – The agenda was scant and attendance light Wednesday, the opening day of a special session called by Gov. Bruce Rauner to resolve a funding fight that’ll determine whether schools get state money before the start of the academic year. Instead, the Republican governor and Democratic leaders pointed fingers over who has hindered progress, a familiar scenario in a state that only recently ended an unprecedented two-year budget impasse. Rauner summoned the Democrat-majority Legislature to Springfield after it failed to meet his deadline to send him a plan that rewrites how Illinois doles out school funds.