By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News

(LA GRANGE, IL) In the state budget impasse, Gov. Bruce Rauner was campaigning for reform Monday in the suburbs.

Still no deal and Rauner is now claiming the Democrats are holding the state school budget hostage.

“They’re screaming and saying it’s got to change this year and it can’t go further and they’ve threatened to hold up school funding and school opening in the fall for a new school funding formula,” Rauner said. “That’s wrong. Our schools should not be held hostage. We’ve got to put more money in the schools while we continue to work on a bi-partisan basis to come up with a school funding formula change.”

Absent from his negotiating points was Rauner’s willingness to raise the state income tax to achieve a grand compromise.

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