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May 23 • 5 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
The Illinois General Assembly went home last Friday without wrapping up Spring Session, and they'll be back at the Capitol tomorrow because there's no budget for Fiscal Year 2024 yet—and no decision on whether the Invest in Kids voucher program will end! Here’s what you can do… Image
If your state rep and senator haven't heard from you this week, it's time to pick up the phone again to ask them to let the voucher program sunset.

Find them here: elections.il.gov/ElectionOperat…

Here's what to say when you call: Image
Want to take another step? Share our letter writing campaign with another public school supporter! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-y…
Thriving public schools that serve ALL kids—including LGBTQ+ students, SWD, English-language learners, and immigrants—are the foundation of our pluralistic democracy. It's time to make good on that with more funds for public schools; not undermine them further w/vouchers. Image
Thanks for your continued advocacy to help end a program that threatens the future of public schools for all our kids. Let's keep pushing! #SunsetInvestInKids #EndInvestInKids #GameOverILVouchers #PublicFundsPublicSchools

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May 24
🧵 - IL AG released an investigative report yesterday, five years in the making, - "Catholic Clergy Child Sex Abuse in IL" …rgyreport.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov
This report on IL dioceses covering up—and in some cases continuing to conceal—abuse of almost 2000 children is another, especially appalling, reminder of why public $ shouldn’t be diverted to private institutions w/almost no public transparency, oversight or accountability.
The intent of the AG’s report is to “provide a public accountability and a measure of healing to survivors who have long suffered in silence” which addresses (in part) past wrongdoing. …rgyreport.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov/introduction/m…
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May 18
Sun-Times/WBEZ story today on closed CPS buildings features Field School, private schl located in former CPS school (Key)—not mentioned is that 40% of students receive Invest in Kids vouchers but Field doesn't serve students w/ moderate-severe disabilities graphics.suntimes.com/education/2023…
We've talked about the Field School for months. It's the perfect example of how because private religious schools can discriminate, giving them public $s creates two-tier public ed system. Field is surrounded by CPS schools w/ high numbers of students with disabilities. The Field School, Chicago I...Vouchers fund discriminatio...
Field School wiped their website after we started publicizing the fact that they don't serve students with disabilities
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May 18
Latest map from ILGA for Chicago's elected representative school board districts: google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie… from here ilsenateredistricting.com
(Here's the previous one that was shared: google.com/maps/d/u/0/vie… )
Senate Special Committee on the Chicago Elected Representative School Board virtual hearing tomorrow, Thurs 5/18 at 5 PM. ilga.gov/senate/committ… Image
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May 17
Groups and individuals are at the @ISBEnews monthly board meeting this morning to speak out against the creation of a new charter high school on the NW Side.
@ISBEnews First up is Betsy Vandercook of @network49rp detailing the issues with Concept schools in Chicago and the utter lack of need for another high school on the NW Side generally
Next up a NW side parent from Portage Park Elem, S Gronkiewicz-Doran: the approval of the new school was an end-run around the moratorium on charters in CPS that parents and teachers fought for. This expansion will hurt my children's school.
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May 16
Since 1982 Supreme Court ruling Plyler v Doe, public schools cannot deny students education based on their immigration status. But some private schools recieving public dollars via the Invest in Kids voucher program in Illinois refuse admission to undocumented students. Christ the King Jesuit Coll...Cristo Rey Jesuit High Scho...
One of these schools is Christ the King Jesuit College Prep in Chicago. It's part of the Cristo Rey Network, a national group of schools that requires students, starting at age 14, to work five days a month to earn money to offset their tuition costs
Another school is Cristo Rey Jesuit HS, also in Chicago, the original school with the work-for-your-tuition model. Students are employed by a 3rd party that contracts with companies; hence the requirement that students must be able to legally work in the US.
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May 12
Reminder: supporters are making massive push to continue IL voucher program which diverts public $ to private schools that discriminate. This isn't education equity.
Let’s take a look at Holy Cross School in Champaign. lobbying yesterday in Springfield w/ voucher org Empower IL Image
Acc to ISBE data: Holy Cross enrolled 217 students last year, 78% white, 13% Black. 0% Hispanic 18% low-income. only 5% were special ed students (# of ELLs unknown) isbe.net/nonpublicprogr…
Holy Cross had 27 voucher recipients this year. 20 (74%) of them identified as white; and only 20% of voucher funds going to Holy Cross went to students from low-income households docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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