School reform bill threatens to ‘crash’ system

The measure, Senate Bill 318, would freeze the property tax for two years and create a panel of Democratic and Republican lawmakers (each with an equal number of votes) to devise a new system of funding public education that would not rely as heavily on the property tax — with the ultimate goal of raising more money for public schools and spending more of it in poorer school districts…Please click here to read Phil Kadner’s column in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.