Chicago Mayor Accuses Governor of 'Playing Politics With Our Children's Futures'

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Tuesday followed through on his promise to veto a school funding bill, taking aim at hundreds of millions of dollars in help for cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools.The Republican governor, long a critic of CPS' leadership and the Chicago Teachers Union, rewrote the measure to strip out more than $200 million in grant money, penalize the district for its declining enrollment and make it appear wealthier in a complex new formula that determines how state school aid is distributed. And while Rauner left in $221 million in CPS pension help, he did so with a big string attached.