It was one of the greatest visual displays of bipartisanship in recent Illinois political memory as top Republicans and Democrats gathered in Chicago and Governor Rauner signed school funding reform legislation.
State Senator Andy Manar, who had pushed for school funding reform with all of his legislative might in recent years, left no room for understatement.
The new law eases state mandates on physical education and driver's education. It also creates a tax credit for those donating to private school scholarship funds.