Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says Gov. Bruce Rauner has wasted 18 months in office and is now "doubling down" on a school funding formula that rewards wealthy children while penalizing poor kids.
Emanuel says the Republican governor has held Illinois hostage by trying to weaken unions and reduce the cost of workers' compensation insurance. He says Rauner should have been "doing the hard work of fixing Illinois' broken education funding formula."
Rauner has criticized majority Democrats for trying to pass a school funding bill that provides hundreds of millions more in state funding to Chicago Public Schools. Rauner calls it a "bailout."
Supporters say the proposal treats CPS the same as every other Illinois school district by having the state cover the cost of teacher pensions.
