Our public schools are under attack — how to fight back
It’s been a long first week of presidential executive orders targeting the public good and our neighbors, our families, ourselves. Monday’s late night illegal federal spending freeze was halted by a court challenge on Tuesday. For now the memo instigating that freeze has been rescinded (although not the orders it was meant to implement) due to widespread public outrage and pushback.
Read moreHelp us stop a disastrous national voucher bill
Last fall, pro-public school advocates successfully pushed the Illinois General Assembly to sunset the state’s school voucher program (aka “Invest in Kids”). A broad coalition of more than 60 local, state and national orgs made this victory possible. Rather than devoting tens of millions of dollars a year to private schools that discriminate, those dollars now go back to the state’s General Revenue Fund to support the public good—including funding our public schools.
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