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Rep. Davis on school funding: ‘It’s better when everybody wins’

Rep. Will Davis (D-Homewood) is one of 25 appointees serving on a bipartisan commission tasked to present the Illinois Legislature with a new education funding formula.

Davis told the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle that doesn’t necessarily mean moving from the current system that uses property taxes to primarily fund schools. Rather, the commission will look at new ways of measuring critical needs and how best to fund them.

Davis, chair of the Illinois House Education Appropriations Committee,…

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