At the expense of children throughout Illinois attending underfunded schools Chicago Public Schools tried to piggyback a huge block grant to would diminish a school funding reform bill. Penalizing school kids across Illinois so they would pay for the years and years of poor management of CPS.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Tuesday vetoed a sweeping education bill, saying the proposed funding formula that Democrats sent him “put Chicago in line for millions more” that would be “diverted from other, needier districts.”
Rauner rewrote the measure to take away a $250 million block grant that Chicago Public Schools has long received and also changed how the funding formula weights CPS pension funding when dividing up new money for schools. The governor said his amendatory veto would keep an extra $221 million for CPS pensions, but put it in a separate appropriation which would have to be approved by lawmakers.