Capitol Fax. com - Your Illinois News Radar » Ives denounces suggested school funding deal* Dr. Howard Fuller, a Distinguished Professor of Education at Marquette University, writing for Real Clear Education about the opportunities presented by the current special session. It provides an opportunity to chart a different course for how the state tackles the challenge of providing all students with access to high- quality education. And it begins with using this debate over education funding to enact a tax credit scholarship program that allows individuals and corporations to allocate a portion of their owed state taxes to private, nonprofit scholarship- granting organizations that issue scholarships to low- income students. By signing a bill with this language into law, the governor would propel Illinois to the forefront of the crucial battle to truly change education in America. Illinois could join the growing list of states that realize there is no one- size fits all system that works for our children, particularly our most vulnerable children.
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To take advantage of this special moment in time a conversation is not enough; concrete action is needed. Given the stakes, the policymakers must right now do what’s best for kids.* On the very same day, the National Review ran this op- ed from Jeanne Allen, the founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform. Hd Quality Rat Film (2017) Watch. Watch The Shape Of Water (2017) here. While Democrats and Republicans agree on much of the bill, in its current form it amounts to a taxpayer bailout of the Chicago Public Schools system, which has skipped most payments into its teacher pension funds for more than a decade and failed to deliver even an adequate education to most of its students for decades.
However, Governor Rauner has an opportunity to craft a compromise solution that provides the key to better education for all kids and ensures that schools open on time. The grand bargain would be simple: He agrees to Democrats’ demands if they include a tax- credit scholarship program in the education- funding- formula legislation.* Rep. Jeanne Ives isn’t amused. Every year I have filed every year a school choice bill of some type, in some years more than one. In full disclosure my children attend both Catholic school AND public school - so I have an educated and unhypocritcal opinion on the matter. I believe in parental choice as do a number of public school teachers who also send their children to private school even as their unions rally against parental choice.
Stick with me here on this lengthy discussion. Well, my bill failed in committee- it was a re- write of former Democratic State Senator (African- American) bill - didn’t matter, killed anyway and Republicans voted against it too - they like the teacher union money as much as Democrats.
Back to the article and my point, even I, as someone who favors school choice, would not make a deal to pass SB1 and bailout Chicago for a tax credit for scholarships. SB1, and its Republican version that does not include the obvious Chicago bailout, would still be a terrible bill for education and taxpayers in Illinois.
The author here has no idea what the deal would mean for the children, families, and taxpayers I represent. Visit jeanneives. Oh, and I sit on the pension committee- the author has no idea how badly underfunded they really are.
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