The Illinois House voted 82-29 Wednesday to override the governor's veto of Senate Bill 2477, which will let Peoria School District 150 have the Peoria Public Building Commission issue bonds for school construction - without voter approval. That sucking sound you hear is local school board control whooshing down to Spendfield and up to Chicago special interests.
We generally respect Rep. David Leitch, R-Peoria, and like what he says, but he's been dead wrong philosophically on this one. He said yesterday:
"It's about as radioactive as it can get because it deals with non-referendum debt," he said, adding that new schools are "urgently needed" for District 150.
If you think this is bad, just wait 'til we get the tax-swipe, errh, swap in place for "real education funding reform" in Illinois. Those jokers from A+ Illinois (Sean Noble), the "Center for Tax and Budget Accountability", the "Metropolitan [Chicago] Planning Council are drooling all over themselves. They just can't wait to increase the income tax, institute a "services" sales tax, call it property tax (school)reform and stick it into the teachers' pension funds.As an aside, here are a few blurbs from Google. It's the usual suspects looking for tax dollars:
Illinois Federation of Teachers
The Illinois Federation of Teachers is a leading member of A+ Illinois Coalition - a ... How much truth is behind these claims? The AFT asked Washington, ...www.ift-aft.org/ - 23k - Nov 29, 2006 -
Alliance Library System - Taking Library Service to a New High Point
Check out the A+ Illinois website and consider joining the effort to support ... until No Child Left Behind legislation is reauthorized, to communicate with ...
www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/
CATALYST, April 2004: Resolved: State taxes should be raised to ...
... is a member of A+ Illinois, the coalition promoting school finance reform. ... and the federal No Child Left Behind Act ($1.4 billion to $1.5 billion). ...www.catalyst-chicago.org/arch/04-04/0404debate.htm - 30k -
Illinois Education Association - IEA insider ~ Oct. 13, 2006
Join A+ Illinois and several other community groups for a community forum on education funding at 7 p.m., Oct. 23 at the Chicago Embassy Church. ...www.ieanea.org/Oct13insider.aspx - 153k -
Early Childhood Advocacy and Public Policy
Chicago City Council. Chicago and Illinois. A+ Illinois · Build Initiative ... Illinois Action for Children (formerly Day Care Action Council of Illinois) ...home.sprintmail.com/~peggyriehl/pradvppolicy.htm - 12k - Nov 28, 2006 -
Clearly the foxes again wish to be the gardians for the henhouse.
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