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Ron Warfield - Public School Funding

Ron Warfield was active in Illinois agriculture and served as president of the Illinois Farm Bureau for ten years, stepping down in 2003. In the mid 2010s he served as a coordinator for Changing How Illinois Education is Funded (CHIEF) proposal which eventually contributed to the passage of Illinois's new public school funding bill in 2017. Warfield also reviews the unsuccessful effort to amend Article X of the Illinois State Constitution, and the Ikenberry School Funding Commission.