Republican Ron Sandack says the push for a new school funding task force in Springfield is one of two things.

Either, he says, the move by Speaker Madigan is another delaying tactic. Or it’s an opportunity to change how Illinois pays for education by saving Chicago’s public schools.

Sandack says downstate and suburban schools are going to demand freedom, choice, or a roll-back of state mandates for classrooms. Like the four year mandate for p.e. in high school.

Sandack says downstate and suburban schools won’t agree to give-up money to bail-out Chicago without getting something substantial in return.