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* The Chicago Public Schools and the city’s mayor were 100 percent behind the state education funding reform bill a couple of years ago. That bill, which became law, moved the state away from per-student funding toward an evidenced-based equity formula. Trouble is, CPS takes the funding based on equity and hands it to its own schools on a per-student formula. So, Rep. Kam Buckner has introduced this bill…

Amends the evidence-based funding provisions of the School Code. Provides that funds received by the Chicago school district for low-income, English learner, and special education resources must be distributed to every school of the district in the appropriate amount specified under the Essential Elements component of the funding formula.

* WCIA TV…

A newly filed bill at the capitol calls for all CBD products sold in Illinois to meet testing requirements developed by the state department of agriculture. Bill sponsor Bob Morgan said, “I wanted to create a mechanism that really pushed these products that are already being sold across the state of Illinois to thousands of people to make sure they are held to the same kind of standards we are holding all these other products to.”

The federal government really messed this up. Regulation is needed because the wild claims by some in the industry may have no basis in reality. Also, we don’t know what’s really in this stuff.

* And here’s a story about a bill that hasn’t even been introduced…

A Republican state lawmaker said Wednesday she plans to introduce legislation to establish a State Ethics Task Force to tighten ethics rules within Illinois government. […]

She indicated that she hopes to have the legislation considered in the upcoming veto session, which begins Oct. 28.

Maybe she could just use this bill introduced 7 years ago that went nowhere in the Senate…

Creates the Legislative Ethics Reform Task Force.

This also appears to be an organized thing with House Republicans…

State Representative Mark Batinick (R-Plainfield) is co-sponsoring legislation to bolster the state’s ethics laws. The legislation will create a State Ethics Task Force to tighten ethics rules within Illinois government. […]

The legislation will be introduced during Veto Session in the General Assembly, which begins on October 28th.

And…

In recognition of Global Ethics Day, State Representative Lindsay Parkhurst, along with several of her legislative colleagues, announced plans to introduce legislation to create a State Ethics Task Force to tighten ethics rules within Illinois government.

Some folks call that “Fixin’ to get ready.”

What we need is a bipartisan, ground-up effort here to force the leaders to act.

posted by Rich Miller
Monday, Oct 21, 19 @ 12:05 pm

Comments

== the federal government really messed this up ==

Thanks to the Dietary Supplement and Health Education Act, which the New York Times call the “Snake Oil Protection Act of 1995,” pretty much anything that is labeled as a “dietary supplement” doesn’t have to do what the manufacturers claim it does.

Comment by BC Monday, Oct 21, 19 @ 12:31 pm
Task Force = A mechanism used by politicians to pretend they’re doing something about an issue of concern to the public while they don’t want to actually act. An important element of this mechanism is the creation of a vague report that gets placed on the old task force report shelf only to be discussed in bars by pols laughing at the wool pulled over constituents’ eyes.

Comment by Norseman Monday, Oct 21, 19 @ 12:41 pm
“You cant pass an Ethics Bill that I can’t get around” —Paul Powell

Remember that as you wail about stopping those corrupt Chicago Democrats

Comment by SOIL M Monday, Oct 21, 19 @ 12:47 pm