Kari Lydersen explains the story behind the Illinois tax-credit program, in this article.
In exchange for sending more money to Chicago, the Illinois legislature (controlled by Democrats) included a $75 million provision for tax credits for private school scholarships.
This is a voucher by another name.
It is the way to enact vouchers in a state where the state constitution bars them.
The nation’s best known tax credit program is in Florida, where Jeb Bush tried and failed to convince voters or the state supreme court to roll back the state constitutional ban on vouchers.
Betsy DeVos wants a national tax credit program, to drain students and resources from public schools.
Learn about it.
It is another way to privatize public education without public consent.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Students are encouraged to recruit other students for BAD education:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/profit-schools-reward-students-referrals-endorsements/
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“All warfare is deception” – Sun-Tzu. I am delighted that Illinois parents are going to have the ability to opt-out of failing public schools.
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Charles,
Your flawed logic and bias is so obvious it is blinding and deafening.
Opt out of “ALLEGED” failing public schools based on test scores.
And what is the choice, a failed voucher program or corporate charter school and that failure are based on a lot more than the high stakes secretive tests designed to rank and punish.
What the are doing is a seditious conspiracy and that is a crime.
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)
I argue that America’s community based, democratic, transparent, traditional public schools were on the way to become the most successful in the world until NCLB and the rest of the Common Core crap.
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An Illinois state senator, Jennifer Bertino-Tarrant of Shorewood, has just filed SB 2236, which essentially would block the tax credits in any year in which the state did not provide a minimum of $350 million in additional funding to its public schools, as foreseen by SB 1947. Bertino-Tarrant holds a doctorate in education and was the Will County Regional Superintendent of Schools.
Because Illinois has for years been chronically short of funds — it has a current outstanding immediate debt of $15 billion, and one of the lowest-funded public pension systems in the U.S. — the state tends to pro-rate in bad budget years. Bertino-Tarrant is attempting to lock in a guaranteed $350 million extra for the state’s poorest districts, using the tax credit programme as “hostage”.
If any of your readers are from Illinois, it might be worth writing to their state senator in support of this bill.
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Thanks to Bertino-Taranto. Keep fighting for what’s best for ALL kids.
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Reblogged this on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé and commented:
How are ALEC and the Walton family privatizing public education without public consent?
That’s called subversion – a crime.
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“If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, § 1, 70 Stat. 623; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)”
ALEC is the perfect example of a seditious conspiracy.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384
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This para from the linked article: “Instead of giving to the government and letting the people decide how to use the money, they want to pick and choose their special causes,” says state Rep. Will Guzzardi (D-Chicago), who opposes the tax credit. “It’s possible there’s already $75 million in giving in this area, so this might not incentivize an extra dime.”
That last bit reminds me of Arizone’s voucher program, where the large majority of voucher-users are families which were already paying [i.e. could afford] privsch tuition– let’s us taxpayers just pony up some extra dough or them!
Not only might it not incentivize an extra dime, It’s a tax CREDIT– 75% of donation subtracted right off the corporation or individual’s total tax bill. As opposed to the 30% or so revenue lost to charity deduction. Let’s just take another $34million per year out of general revenues & send it straight to private schools! It won’t cost us a dime! Er it’ll cost $34million/yr– but not in school taxes!
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