Now, that would be a genuine redistribution of wealth!

The problem has nothing to do with funding, but everything to do with misuse of millions of dollars – taxpayers dollars – by public schools.

Really reform begins and ends with Real Choice – give every EVERY – family the choice of where to send their kids.

Competition breeds reform. Accountability breeds stewardship.

Tossing dollars at any problem breeds deficits.

Rev Meeks cried openly over this situation on several occasions during church service because as an legislator he believes he should be able to get the job done without any resistance from his fellow white senators.

You know america really did not want colored children to learn and the jim crow laws still exist today. AMERICA WAKE UP AND TREAT ALL CITIZENS ALIKE…………ALL CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE………..

You already know that the so called hispanic’s will not stand with the black’s on this issue even though they will again benefit from our labor.

Hispanic’s really dont know the history of this country…but I am sure they will soon find out just how much america loves their race.

The first half of the Urban League suit/Meeks view is somewhat accurate, but not really for Chicago, which has plenty of money to spend on kids (above $10K/kid)!!!

The real culprit is the “district based” scheme that enshrines educational apartheid while simultaneously creating a spending ratchet that only enriches teachers unions and their bureaucratic allies.

If you opened CPS books to close scrutiny, you would find that the disparity of spending INSIDE Chicago is probably greater than the disparity between many suburban schools.

There is only one rational solution, and that is to FUND CHILDREN fully and directly, and allow for their parents’ choices to drive the bureaucratic waste and fraud out of the public schools.

Unions and bureaucrats have created dangerous cycle where they use OUR wishes for our children to create a permanent jobs program for an army of politically powerful and protected public employees.

Just look at the arguments here. This system is pitting citizen against citizen, and region against region, as it cynically drives public sentiment for ever greater taxes to fund their greed (and their political machine).

It isn’t white suburbs against black cities, but citizens against a corrupt and powerful cabal of teachers unions and connected companies enriching themselves off of your dreams for your children.

Here is the solution.

1. Abolish the school district

2. Zero out the property tax for schools ($12 billion Cut)

3. Increase Sales and Income taxes about $9 bn. (resulting $3 bn cut for IL citizens as businesses)

4. Fund each child with about $8000

5. Convert every school into a 501(c)3 charter managed by parents, teachers, and a principle.

Transition to this system can be handled by a re-write of the school code. The current school code was written by teachers unions, bureaucrats, and handed to their purchased legislators (both parties) for passage.

You can fund an educated populace, or you can fund a corrupt and greedy education bureaucracy. You can’t do both. Pick one.

SAY NO TO B.O.& JOE

Reverend Senator Meeks is correct he is able to see how the government get the money and channel it throughout the state from beginning to end, I’m quite sure more disproportionate dollars will be expose.

If Rosa Parks never sat still and took a stand, we would never been able to sit at the front of the bus. Illinois is unfair and unequal, the poorest communities play the most lottery dollars, but yet the money are shared across the state, property tax dollars should be distributed across the state the same way as lottery money.

Also, the so call prominent school districts does not have the same problems as CPS when educating not only out of district pupils, but illegal immigrants who want their children to be educated, whereas they may not received a education of any means in their homeland they snuck out of and continue to sneak out of, so of course they would not support the boycott.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw