Lawyer behind college affirmative action challenges targets Illinois – Crain’s*

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.

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Hello, Indiana!
1 year ago

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.

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