![Urbana School Dis. Supt. Don Owen, flanked by are St. Senators Andy Manar & Scott Bennett, St. Rep. Carol Ammons and Urbana Mayor Diane Marlin.](https://will.illinois.edu/images/uploads/45689/20170810_130237__medium.jpg)
Urbana School Supt. & Local Democratic Lawmakers Call For Override To Ensure School Funding
Democrats have kept up a steady attack on Governor Bruce Rauner’s amendatory veto of Senate Bill 1, their education funding reform bill. And at a news conference in Urbana Thursday, they spelled out some of their complaints --- and their worst fear, that the state would enter the new school year with no state funding for public schools.