Rev. Senator Meeks of Illinois plans to bus thousands of truant CPS students* to Winnetka’s New Trier School District and enroll them in the affluent northern suburb.
Given the cost of gassing up the buses need to take his expected ‘thousands of children,’ Rev./Senator Meeks is going on the hip in a huge way to bring focus on what he believes to be a two-tiered funding inequity in how education dollars are spent.
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Dan Kelley says:
This publicity stunt looks like a shakedown, pure and simple.
Months and months ago, one of the New York newspapers, I think it was "New York Times," ran an article on the lavish spending in Evanston Township (a racially diverse school district) and the failure to show a corresponding improvement in minority student grades and test scores.
The Reverend Senator Meeks does not get it. All he wants is to gather in some more headlines. I wonder how many state dollars (state dollars are awarded on a formula tied to attendance) will be lost due to student absenteeism on Meeks' publicity junket.