Gov. Rauner cuts Chicago money from school funding bill

http://www.sj-r.com/news/20170801/gov-rauner-cuts-chicago-money-from-school-funding-bill

SPRINGFIELD, IL – (Doug Finke, Springfield Journal-Register.  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

Gov. Bruce Rauner used his amendatory veto power to rewrite a school funding reform bill Tuesday, something Democratic lawmakers said will set back school funding reform by decades.

Rauner made multiple changes to Senate Bill 1, including how the bill deals with Chicago teacher pensions and changing a hold harmless provision so that it will eventually be based on school enrollment.
“Senate Bill 1, as it is written, does not achieve both fairness and equity for all Illinois students and it did not meet the expectations of the School funding Reform Commission,” Rauner said during a Statehouse news conference.

Rauner said he is “beyond disappointed” that the funding reform bill wasn’t sent to him until Monday and said “some people in this building chose to politicize the issue and play partisan football with our kids’ future.