Sun Times Editorial: It’s a once-in-a generation opportunity for Rauner, Madigan and Cullerton

For the first time ever, Springfield has a real opportunity to make progress on two fundamental and seemingly unsolvable education-related funding problems in Illinois: Fixing a broken state school funding formula that strains property taxpayers’ wallets and hurts the state’s neediest students, and giving Chicago the same pension funding support that every other Illinois school district long has enjoyed.

This is the promise embedded in a bill passed by the Illinois Senate on Tuesday, a promise we hope House Speaker Mike Madigan and Gov. Bruce Rauner, despite deep philosophical differences on other issues, can find a way to get behind it. Read more here.