state debt poem # 2 why stop at the museum, guys?there’s nothing here we really prizelop the lib’ry, what’s left of it –no one reads so why not shove itclose the parks, let geezers taketheir horseshoes to a cheaper stakethose highway rest-stops are a draincan’t tourists pee out in the rain?the zoo must cost us […]
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Schools panel emphasizes efficiency, not just consolidation
In Sangamon County there are 18 different school districts, including two community college districts, and five different regional offices of education located within the county’s borders. That might be too many, says Jerry Harrison, a field representative for the Illinois Education Association and one of 18 members of the state’s Classrooms First Commission, formed earlier […]
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Voters to decide on sales tax for schools
If voters next week approve a referendum raising Sangamon County’s sales tax rate from 8 percent to a maximum of 9 percent, it would reaffirm a philosophical shift in school funding already begun by the Illinois state legislature, says David Root, superintendent of Williamsville schools. Without sales tax revenue, school funding in Illinois is based […]
