Giving Chicago Schools an Extra $300 Million Is Hurtful
The Democrats have come to an agreement in next years State budget. You can read the stories about it in the 2 following articles.
(Hat Tip: Extreme Wisdom)
I just laughed when I saw the title of the first article. How does giving the schools an extra $300 million hurt them. Below is the excerpt about this:
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Although three Chicago Democrats were the chief architects who cobbled together the budget deal, it provides only half of the new money requested by the Chicago board of education.
The budget deal will pump $300 million new dollars into Illinois schools, but that’s not good enough for Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan. He says that’s only half of what is needed to stave off program cuts, increased class size and layoffs. ……… “It means job cuts, it means program cuts, it means layoffs, because we would not step forward and make the tough decisions,” |
