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The unions claim the program strips money from public schools, but that’s nonsense. The scholarships are privately funded, and the Invest in Kids Act was part of a bipartisan bill that created an evidence-based funding model and provided $350 million a year to Illinois public schools. Since the scholarship program started, Illinois has funneled an extra $1.3 billion into public education.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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The last thing that Teachers Unions want is competition. Competition is the sunshine that exposes to parents, students and taxpayers the grift, sloth, incompetence, massive failure, educational racism and criminal scam that is Chicago Teachers Union.
CTU want to make sure that they have a monopoly on Chicago schools — schools that teach nothing of any value — and whose real function is as a money laundry for the corrupt Illinois Democrat Party and the union racketeers that dictate the party agenda
Be careful when ever you hear “it’s for the children.”