7am News, Sports and Obits
Latest WGIL news
Click to play or
Right click and "Save Target As" to download
Click for Galesburg, Illinois Forecast
Home - Cancellations - Community Events - Contact Us - Mornings - News - Obituaries - Pictures - Programs - Special Events Audio - Sports - Weather
Quinn Unhappy with Legislature's Progress
(IRN)-There's just over a week to go in the General Assembly, and Governor Pat Quinn is not happy with what's happening.

The governor proposed increasing education funding by $225 million. The Illinois House is cutting education by $200 million.

"I'm not happy with members of the General Assembly who think you can cut special education. This is just plain wrong," Quinn said. "There are those who think you can cut early childhood education. I don't think that's right. And I definitely don't think it's right to be cutting the funding for boys and girls going to kindergarten through 12th grade."

The state of course is billions in the red and has to cut somewhere, but Quinn says with economic recovery under way, state revenues are on the rise, and the increase should be invested in schools.

The House and Senate have both passed budgets, but they're different, so they will have to be reconciled. In total, the Senate budget is about $1 billion smaller than the governor's proposal, and the House budget is $2 billion smaller.

May 31 is the deadline to pass legislation with a simple majority.

(Source: Illinois Radio Network)
05 23 11 by Newsroom
News management powered by Xpression News

Click here for the WGIL News Archive

Click here for national news

The following provision applies to all visitors (which shall include persons and representatives of legal entities, whether such representatives are persons or digital engines of a kind that crawls, indexes, scrapes, copies, stores or transmits digital content). By accessing this Web site or digital service, you specifically acknowledge and agree that: (i) Associated Press text, photo, graphic, audio and/or video material shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium; (ii) No Associated Press materials nor any portion thereof may be stored in a computer except for personal and non-commercial use; (iii) The Associated Press will not be held liable for any delays, inaccuracies, errors or omissions therefrom or in the transmission or delivery of all or any part thereof or for any damages arising from any of the foregoing; (iv) The Associated Press is an intended third party beneficiary of these terms and conditions and it may exercise all rights and remedies available to it; and (v) The Associated Press reserves the right to audit possible unauthorized commercial use of AP materials or any portion thereof at any time.