GOP senator: Gov. Rauner willing to discuss changes to education funding reform after he receives bill

https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/gop-senator-gov-rauner-willing-to-discuss-changes-to-education/article_383cefe4-72ec-11e7-80ae-335d3f63bb10.html

SPRINGFIELD, IL – (Greg Bishop and Dan McCaleb,  Illinois News Network.  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

Gov. Bruce Rauner is willing to negotiate with Democrats before he makes changes to an education funding bill that bails out Chicago Public Schools’ pensions, but only after he’s sent the measure by the Senate, a GOP lawmaker said Thursday afternoon.
State Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington, said Rauner assured him he’d do that once Senate Democrats release Senate Bill 1, which passed out of the General Assembly in May.

“[Rauner is] willing to hold the bill then and then let’s have a negotiation,” Barickman said. “Let’s hear what it is the Democrats are willing to do to help resolve the impasse and resolve school funding.”