SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is blasting Gov. Bruce Rauner’s rewrite of a school funding proposal that strips money from the city’s schools.

In a statement, Emanuel says the Republican governor has ignored “the needs of Illinois’ school children” and that the plan only advances Rauner’s “own personal brand of cynical politics.”

Rauner used his amendatory veto powers to strip money, including pension help, from Chicago Public Schools. He calls his changes more equitable and fair for schools statewide. It returns to the Legislature, where a three-fifths majority is needed in each chamber to overrule Rauner.

An overhaul of the 20-year-old way Illinois doles out funding to public schools is needed because the budget legislators approved last month calls for a new funding formula. There’s wide agreement the current calculation is unfair, but Republicans and Democrats disagree over how to change it.