The American Alliance for Equal Rights, founded by lawyer Edward Blum, has sued Gov. JB Pritzker and Kevin Huber, chairman of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, over the 32-year-old Minority Teachers of Illinois Scholarship Program,which awards as much as $7,500 to qualified minority applicants.
So how does giving one educator, based on identity, get more money than another one when both are, by union contract, being paid the same amount of money when both are at the same level and job, possibly equate to equality? If anything it is exactly the opposite.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
So how does giving one educator, based on identity, get more money than another one when both are, by union contract, being paid the same amount of money when both are at the same level and job, possibly equate to equality? If anything it is exactly the opposite.