Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner
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Recent News About Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner
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Illinois' debt to vendors keeps climbing, hits $16 billion
Despite avoiding a credit downgrade with the budget package passed in July, Illinois still carries a massive backlog of bills that recently hit $16 billion, and the state’s plan to address it is to incur more debt, according to a report from Zero Hedge, a global finance website.
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Illinois education head Purvis joins Kern Family Foundation
Education Secretary Beth Purvis will leave the Rauner Administration on Friday to oversee educational philanthropy at the non-profit Kern Family Foundation in Wisconsin.
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Governors group cheers Rauner, tax credit scholarships
The Republican Governors Association (RGA) recently hailed Gov. Bruce Rauner for successfully negotiating conservative education reforms with Illinois’ Democratically controlled General Assembly.
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Rauner aims to take bite out of debt via $6 billion in bonds
Gov. Bruce Rauner will try to pay down some of Illinois' overwhelming pile of debt by issuing $6 billion in bonds, according to a press release.
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Chicago Tribune says new formula alleviates dead-end school dread
Illinois' most-read newspaper sees what some legislators refuse to, according to the Illinois Republican Party: The state's new education reform model gives schoolchildren a real chance to develop.
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Rauner says school reform is what he's been fighting for
Gov. Bruce Rauner penned a column for the Daily Herald recently in which he described the recently enacted school funding reform as "the reason why I ran for governor in the first place.”
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State school money will finally go where it is most needed, Rauner says
The historic new Illinois school funding bill enacted on Thursday will give money to where it is most needed, nnot only to schools but also to low- and middle-income students who have been forced to attend underperforming schools, according to a press release from Gov. Bruce Rauner.
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Illinois media praises school funding reform, Rauner's efforts
Illinois' new school funding formula is drawing praise from media outlets throughout the state, the Illinois Republican Party reported recently.
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Conservatives called spineless in Illinois transgender birth certificate debate
Laurie Higgins says it’s time conservatives took a more courageous stand in the transgender birth certificate debate.
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Besler back with advocacy group after stint with Rauner team
Matthew Besler is back in his lead role with the Illinois Opportunity Project after serving as chief strategic adviser for Citizens for Rauner Inc. since July, according to a press release.
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Wall Street Journal cheers Rauner for tax credit scholarship program
The Wall Street Journal has praised Gov. Bruce Rauner’s efforts in the school funding reform debate that led to the introduction of a school choice program in the reform legislation, according to a recent release from the Illinois Republican Party.
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Rauner re-election, reform agenda at top of GOP list
Gov. Bruce Rauner and Republicans throughout the state have been rallying in support of Rauner's ongoing calls for reform and his re-election campaign, according to a press release from the Illinois Republican Party.
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Rauner signs bill to prevent police-pension 'double dipping'
Police officers will not longer be able to “double dip” into the same pension fund thanks to legislation signed recently by Gov. Bruce Rauner, according to the Illinois Republican Party.
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GOP lauds bipartisan compromise that inches school funding closer
Democrats and Republicans really can work together after all, the Illinois Republican Party commented in a recent press release following the apparent compromise on a state school funding measure.
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House passes school funding bill on second attempt; Senate awaits
After hours of negotiations, countless debates and a reconsideration of voting, the Illinois House passed an education funding bill on Monday.
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Illinois political aide turned lobbyist swings for the fences, and connects
After 25 years, Nancy Kimme finally left her state government office in Feb. 2015. But she didn’t go far.
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Rauner defends school funding changes: Numbers don't lie
Gov. Bruce Rauner says partisan politics is no match for basic math when it comes to looking at the difference between his amended version of the state's public school funding bill and its original version.
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Two new ads push Rauner school plan as what 'our kids deserve'
Two ads pushing for Gov. Bruce Rauner's school funding plan have been added to the ammunition against approving a plan that provides extra benefits to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to the detriment of all other public schools, Citizens for Rauner said in a press release announcing the ads.
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GOP accuses House Democrats of forcing sham school funding vote
The Democratic House Majority is wasting time on charades rather because it lacks the courage to vote on the state's school funding bill, Republican House members charged on Wednesday.
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Rauner pleads for compromise on school funding bill
A day after the Senate voted to override his amendatory veto of the state's K-12 funding bill, Gov. called on "the four legislative leaders" -- Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago), Speaker of the House Michael Madigan (D-Chicago), Senate Minority Leader Bill Brady (R-Bloomington) and House Minority Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) -- to meet and find a middle ground on the measure.