Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday said an agreement nearly has been reached on a stopgap budget bill, but that talks with Democratic legislative leaders over a separate education funding bill remain far apart.

Speaking at a Statehouse press conference, Rauner said Senate President John Cullerton and House Speaker Michael Madigan are “threatening” to hold up Republicans leaders’ stopgap budget and K-12 education funding bills unless the school funding formula changes, which Rauner and GOP lawmakers repeatedly have called a bailout for Chicago Public Schools.

“People across the state should not be held up…