Taxpayer funded ESSR money was swiftly approved and distributed with little to no oversight during the pandemic. Districts in New York, California, Illinois, and Minnesota openly spent their pandemic dollars on political endeavors; Illinois has utilized masses of pandemic-relief money to institute equity plans with a specific focus on “anti-racism.”
School districts are the worst offenders of no oversite spending ever. No matter how much money they are given from the tax payers, it is NEVER enough. We could give them ALL the money and it wouldnt be enough. There is more waste in the public school and state universities than anywhere.
Locke
3 years ago
Seems perfectly sustainable.
Freddy
3 years ago
In Belvidere they have been replacing parking lots and curbs in many of the schools thruout the summer and considering many of these schools are newer they did not look like they needed to be replaced.
Freddy, Your right you have to continue to make North the Oasis in the corn field.
nixit
3 years ago
The funny part is schools finally received the giant influx of federal money they’ve been craving for decades, only for it to be temporary, inflationary, and subject to a tight labor market. So they can’t find anyone to fill new roles or laborers for infrastructure improvements, and if they do, they’re spending more for less.
Truth Seeker
3 years ago
This is all they have ever done. Spending money like crazy in our schools has been going on for decades. The money has been used to enrich themselves. It has not gone to educating our children.
Old Joe
3 years ago
Once again folks, Don’t anybody confuse a government jobs program with education.
Pat S.
3 years ago
Math is racist?
Unless public education gets its proverbial head out of its proverbial backside, we could lose a whole generation of kids. What a disservice to the children.
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.
School districts are the worst offenders of no oversite spending ever. No matter how much money they are given from the tax payers, it is NEVER enough. We could give them ALL the money and it wouldnt be enough. There is more waste in the public school and state universities than anywhere.
Seems perfectly sustainable.
In Belvidere they have been replacing parking lots and curbs in many of the schools thruout the summer and considering many of these schools are newer they did not look like they needed to be replaced.
A school district with money is a little like the mule with the spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it.
Freddy, Your right you have to continue to make North the Oasis in the corn field.
The funny part is schools finally received the giant influx of federal money they’ve been craving for decades, only for it to be temporary, inflationary, and subject to a tight labor market. So they can’t find anyone to fill new roles or laborers for infrastructure improvements, and if they do, they’re spending more for less.
This is all they have ever done. Spending money like crazy in our schools has been going on for decades. The money has been used to enrich themselves. It has not gone to educating our children.
Once again folks, Don’t anybody confuse a government jobs program with education.
Math is racist?
Unless public education gets its proverbial head out of its proverbial backside, we could lose a whole generation of kids. What a disservice to the children.
Bah!