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Roger Eddy - Pension Crisis in Illinois

Roger Eddy is a career educator who also served in the Illinois state legislature from 2003 to 2012. He served as the executive director of the Illinois Association of School Boards at the time of the interview, and from that perspective, discussed Illinois's current pension crisis in detail, including potential solutions to funding problems and increased responsibility placed on local schools to help meet the increasing demands for funding. Eddy also discussed the effects of the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that declared key provisions of Senate Bill 1 (2013) unconstitutional.