Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, August 1, 2017.
Rahm urges Rauner to sign school funding bill
Mayor Rahm Emanuel urged Governor Bruce Rauner to sign Senate Bill 1, which revamps the state’s school funding and gives $220 million to Chicago Public Schools for teacher pensions. Rauner has promised to issue an amendatory veto against the bill’s provision for what the governor calls a CPS “bailout.” “This is a four-decade-long effort to finally do what people for years have been talking about doing,” Emanuel said Monday. “I believe there will be Democratic and Republican support for this [school funding bill], as there was for passing it originally. I would ask the governor, ‘Since you agree with 90 percent of it, sign what you agree with, let our children move forward and play the regional politics on another issue.'” [Sun-Times]
