Illinois governor vetoes public school money

But this time it’s a particularly risky move ahead of Rauner’s 2018 re-election bid, with schools across the state potentially paying the price. Legislators could seek to override the veto.

“Make no mistake, the fundamental ideas in it, the evidence-based model, I fully support”, Andersson said. “We’re going to do it in Chicago”. That’ll be an element of what goes on, and we will look to see what the thoughts are and what happens with some of the advocacy groups. “The governor is a stumbling block to that effort”.

Democrats insist the pending proposal is fair since Chicago is the only IL district that pays the employer portion of teacher pension costs. If the changes are upheld, Rauner claims IL will “achieve historic education funding reform”. This is false. Chicago is the only community that has English language learners. “We have those children all around the state, and they all deserve to be treated fairly”.

On Tuesday, Rauner, a Republican, partially vetoed a bill to overhaul the state’s school funding formula, denouncing it a “bailout” of Chicago Public Schools. Lawmakers also could work toward negotiating a new version of the legislation.

Nor has he addressed the inconsistency in arguing that the Chicago pension system is undeserving of state help because it is “broken” when it is still in healthier financial shape than the state-run pension system for all other teachers in IL.

But minutes after Manar spoke to reporters, Republican state Sen. Emanuel criticized Rauner’s rationale and urged passage of the legislation in its original form. However, he acknowledged it’s far from a guarantee. He’s flatly against any additional help for Chicago, which he says already disproportionately benefits because of House Speaker Michael Madigan, a Chicago Democrat who’s the longest-serving House speaker nationwide.

“This is worth fighting for”.

Bloomington’s District 87 and the Olympia district in Stanford could keep doors open for the entire school year, but that would result in a deep gouge to their reserve funds. Andy Manar, a Bunker Hill Democrat who sponsored the bill. This is the only bill in which no districts lose money-a principle that superintendents all across IL have held to and will not violate.

“Everyone in Springfield should all be working toward the same, unified goal – fair and equitable school funding for all IL students”. Within 24 hours of the bill’s release, the Governor issued his promised amendatory veto to advance this bill.

“Hundreds of thousands of dollars per school district should come here, not sent to Chicago”, Rauner said in Carbondale last month.

Emanuel on Wednesday repeated that Chicago schools would open on time.

These findings led to SB1, the new funding bill (which passed the legislature with nearly no Republican support). This is money that our school districts desperately need in order to provide the best education to our students. So, while they can credibly claim all they want that SB 1 isn’t a Chicago bailout, the governor simply counters with his own numbers (which he won’t verify) that Downstate and suburban schools would do much better with his plan (which he refused to disclose for weeks).