On Monday, Grammy-winner Chance the Rapper announced a $1 million donation to Chicago Public Schools, just as Gov. Bruce Rauner’s office presented new ideas to rescue the cash-strapped district from its funding wreckage.

The governor’s office says there are a couple of ways for Chicago Public Schools to fill its budget hole.

In a memo, the governor’s Chief of Staff Richard Goldberg suggested two options. One of them is to use tax-increment financing dollars.

The memo says that “given the extraordinary mismanagement of both the city and CPS budgets, legislation could be enacted to authorize a one-time mayoral transfer of $215 million from Chicago TIF funds to CPS.”

Goldberg says the office is already drafting legislation to that end, just in case. The memo also recommends using TIF dollars as a long-term solution for CPS – an idea that’s been floated before.

“I think when we look at TIF districts across the state, we see that there are many TIF districts that actually allow taxation for educational programming, and I think that’s something that was discussed at the Illinois School Funding Commission. So I think it’s worth looking into further,” said Illinois Secretary of Education Beth Purvis.

The memo cites that the district has already received a $102-million increase in general state aid this year, along with the $250 million CPS receives through special block grants.

The other suggestion: Add CPS’s $215 million request to Senate President John Cullerton’s statewide pension reform legislation, Senate Bill 16.

That’s how CPS was originally promised this $215 million for pensions. The agreement was that CPS would receive it only if the state passed broader pension reform. The governor vetoed the funding bill for CPS last fall, when pension reform hadn’t happened yet.

The memo says SB 16 could be untied from the so-called “grand bargain” – passed through the General Assembly and signed on its own.

Both the mayor’s office and CPS responded to the suggestions in separate statements, but both argue that the state is asking Chicago taxpayers and students to work harder or pay more for what they believe they’re already owed.

A mayor’s office spokesperson issued the following statement:

“Governor Rauner’s suggestions are no solution at all. His plan to fix the fact that Chicago taxpayers pay twice for teacher pensions is to have them pay three times instead.It’s past time for the governor to step up, as Chicago's taxpayers already have, and end the state'sseparate and unequal funding for Chicago students.”

And a CPS spokesperson said issued this statement:

“Yet again, Governor Rauner is perpetuating a racially discriminatory state funding system and his so-called plan actually demands that Chicago students do more to get the same funding that every other student in the State of Illinois is entitled to receive – a gross disparity that has no place in 2017. Chicago residents stepped up and are paying $342 million more in taxes this year alone to support schools, and it’s past time for the state of Illinois to end the racial discrimination that is creating a separate and unequal funding system.”

Chance the Rapper held a press conference Monday at Westcott Elementary School in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood where he announced that he’s collaborated with ticketing corporations like Live Nation and Ticketmaster to donate $1 million to Chicago Public Schools for arts and enrichment – from the ticket sales for his upcoming tour.

Not only did he meet with Rauner last Friday, they also spoke by phone over the weekend. But still, the rapper says the governor is being vague and non-committal.

In addition to the $1 million donation that’s coming from his youth-focused nonprofit, Social Works, the CPS grad is asking the governor to do his job.

“Governor Rauner would like for the narrative of this conversation to be that our conversations were to help find a way to subsidize funding for CPS,” said Chancelor Bennett, aka Chance the Rapper. “That’s not what I told y’all, that’s not what’s going on. I want them to fund CPS. It’s not my job to propose any policy or be behind anything other than the kids.”

Chance says he’s challenging other major corporations to join him in donating to CPS.

He and his nonprofit are also planning to donate an additional $10,000 to a CPS school for every additional $100,000 raised.

He started that Monday by donating $10,000 to Westcott Elementary.

And the governor’s office has already responded to Chance’s announcement, saying, “While the Rauners are passionate donors to our schools, individual contributions will never be enough to address the financial challenges facing CPS.”

The governor’s office also notes the Rauners themselves, through their family foundation, have donated $7 million in the past 20 years to organizations that support public education.

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