Illinois governor rejects school funding legislation

By Dave McKinney and Karen PierogCHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner on Tuesday blocked hundreds of millions of new state dollars from going to cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools (CPS) by rewriting parts of a state school-funding overhaul bill, potentially imperiling the entire legislation and the flow of state money to all school districts.The Republican governor said he used his amendatory veto on the bill, which creates a new model for education funding, to remove "an unfair