{"id":725871,"date":"2010-04-28T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T17:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef013480353ff9970c"},"modified":"2010-04-28T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:02:51","slug":"quinn-angling-for-more-education-money-as-obama-visits-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/725871","title":{"rendered":"Quinn angling for more education money as Obama visits Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by Michelle Manchir<\/em> at 12:11 p.m.
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SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn is angling for more federal education money ahead of President Barack Obama’s appearance in downstate Quincy today.<\/p>\n

"You can always ask for more money. I think the thing we would like to see if at all possible is getting more money for education from Washington," Quinn said. "The president I know is committed to that but I\u2019m not sure the Congress is and we have to be realistic; we\u2019re not going to get the billion dollars from Washington that we got last year."\n<\/p>\n

The expected drop off in federal schools aid was one reason Quinn cited last month when he proposed a 33 percent income tax rate hike to avoid a $1.3 billion cut to schools, from kindergarten through college. While a major education cut is in the budget Quinn proposed, lawmakers could cut elsewhere. Lawmakers have shown few signs of wanting to raise the income tax during
\n an election year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to let the legislature off the hook on that one,\u201d Quinn warned today.
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The governor said next month will bring \u201cquite a battle in making sure we have appropriate funding for education.\u201d Already this year thousands of Illinois teachers and school employees statewide have been issued pink slips.<\/p>\n

The General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn May 7, but the harder deadline is May 31. That\u2019s when it would take a three-fifths vote to pass a budget, giving the out-of-power House Republicans a voice in the final spending blueprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by Michelle Manchir at 12:11 p.m. SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn is angling for more federal education money ahead of President Barack Obama’s appearance in downstate Quincy today. "You can always ask for more money. I think the thing we would like to see if at all possible is getting more money for education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32PB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}