* Yesterday, the governor basically accused Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his school chief Forrest Claypool of double-dealing. In private, they agree with his radical collective bargaining “reforms,” the governor claimed. In public, they deny agreeing to it.

Mayor Emanuel essentially dodged the allegation last night on “Chicago Tonight.” But he did have this advice…

“I asked the Speaker and then Gov. Quinn and President Cullerton, that I ran on an effort to make sure our children have the full school day, the full school year, no longer the shortest school day and the shortest school year. We couldn’t make progress, work with me so that we should not have to negotiate that in a contract.

“We worked on it, got it done.”

[Cross talk, including a question about how Gov. Rauner wants a bill that applies statewide.]

“Then work with the legislative leaders on a bill to do that, not try to hold the children of the City of Chicago hostage, not try to hold parents who rely on daycare hostage.”

* Sun-Times…

During a Thursday evening appearance on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight,” Emanuel said Rauner’s “finger-pointing and name-calling” are not the way to get results. And the mayor expressed frustration over Rauner’s tactics.

“Two weeks ago the governor said that with me and John Cullerton, he’d get a deal already, and now I’m a problem this week.”

When asked if Rauner was trying to get Emanuel to turn on Madigan, Emanuel said: “That’s not going to be a successful effort.”

* More from Reboot…

The Chicago Public Schools pension provision in Cullerton’s bill is designed to offset state funding of teacher pensions granted to every school district in Illinois except Chicago. Emanuel said Rauner’s opposition to the bill amounts to holding Chicago students hostage while trying to squeeze concessions on politically unpopular concepts like right-to-work laws.

“Don’t use it as a pawn to get your agenda where people have hard feelings about it,” Emanuel said.

Emanuel said the governor needs to look at what’s in the bill, not what’s missing, and use it as a starting point for his agenda.

“I say to the governor, having worked for two presidents and as mayor, there’s a way to get some of the things you want done,” Emanuel said. “My point is, rather than try to turn one person against the other, John Cullerton has a bill that addresses two years’ worth of property tax freeze. Let’s work on that product. It also addresses my needs, it addresses some of the Republicans in the suburbs’ needs. There’s a real bill there.”

* Go watch the whole interview.