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Education

Midwest Week: Illinois Finally Reforms School Funding

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix
Published September 15, 2017 at 8:01 AM CDT
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State of Illinois

On Midwest Week, for the first time in many, many years, Illinois has reformed its school funding formula, but it wasn't easy.

Herb Trix's guest is Brian Mackey, statehouse reporter in Springfield for Illinois Public Radio.

You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered. 

EducationBruce RaunerIllinois General AssemblyBrian Mackeyschool funding
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Herb Trix
A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.
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