Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, August 15, 2017.
Rauner is mad that the senate overrode his school funding veto
Governor Bruce Rauner is not happy that the Illinois senate overrode his amendatory veto of the school funding bill, saying Monday that the senate had made “a terrible mistake.” An Illinois State Board of Education analysis received last week said CPS “would receive $463 less in funding this next year school under Gov. Rauner’s funding plan than the measure approved by the Democrat-controlled Illinois General Assembly,” according to the Sun-Times. “I work for the children of Chicago . . . but I work for the children of the suburbs too,” the governor said. “I don’t want to hurt the children of Chicago. . . . My veto was designed to make the system fair.” The house now has 14 days to act on an override. [Sun-Times]
