Category: State Budget
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Illinois’ Obscene Plan to Fund Education Based on Race
Public universities in Illinois are teeing up the next scam in this state. And if it comes to fruition, it is likely they will find themselves embroiled in a lawsuit all the way to the US Supreme Court.
The Illinois Board of Higher Education, progressive Democrat state legislators and university presidents have put together a plan to fund higher education based on race.
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Fact-Checking Pritzker’s State of the State & Budget Address
This Wednesday, Gov. Pritzker will give his State of the State and Budget Address at noon. So, it’s a good time to look at his budget address from last year and do a bit of fact-checking.
State Rep. Chris Miller looked back at Pritzker’s Speech from 2023 and then projected what the half-truths and outright lies would be this year.
“We all heard Pritzker’s State of the State Address speech last year,
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Unspent Covid Money – Unemployment Fraud
The Republicans in Congress were right to request all unspent COVID funds be returned to the US Treasury. And we should demand that our Illinois legislators give a transparent listing of all FY24 budget items that are using COVID dollars and explain exactly how it is COVID related. It’s just another scam, and I am sure we aren’t the only state doing it.
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Sketchy 2:30 am Budget Passed
I want to briefly comment on the Illinois budget that passed at 2:30 am on Saturday morning. That should tell you all you need to know. The Democrats once again passed a budget in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. They don’t want anyone to pay attention to the details and they add in a bunch of drama to make it seem like they’re hard at work.
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1 Good Bill Both Sides Agree On
In a flurry of activity over four days this week, collectively, the House and Senate passed out of committee 1628 bills. No way, you’re thinking they could actually hear and pass that many bills. You would be right. 914 of the bills were “Shell Bills.” Shell bills are used to move legislation after the committee deadline by adding an amendment to that bill. Actual bills heard and passed were 714, by my count. That’s a lot of bills.
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It’s a Scam…
It;s a Scam. I am talking about the complete failure of Evidenced Based School Funding (EBF), the new system adopted to spend state money on education in 2017. At the time of the bill’s passage, Illinois was the number one state for reliance on local taxes to fund schools. This created large disparities in how much was spent on education among our 862 school districts (Florida, with nearly 70% more people, has only 68 school districts, btw); those disparities were mostly a factor of local property wealth and the numerous special grants that overtook the old general state aid formula over time.
