Progressives opposed to private scholarship tax-credits. Progressives work with Teachers Cartel to limit Competition.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The ink isn’t dry on a school funding agreement reached “in principle” late Thursday among state legislative leaders and the governor that gives Chicago Public Schools the financial boost it needs, yet progressive members of Chicago’s City Council are already urging the deal be shot down.

Members of the legislature were being briefed on the deal Friday morning.

Part of the public school funding deal that has taken months to hammer out — after Gov. Bruce Rauner used an amendatory veto on a bipartisan bill the legislature approved earlier this summer — includes a $75 million tax credits for donors who give to school scholarship funds for private schools, religious or not. The addition of private school benefits in a public school funding bill is highly unusual and came about relatively late in the game and thanks to the intercession of Cardinal Blase Cupich, Chicago’s leader of the Catholic Church.

“We oppose any effort to create private school vouchers in Illinois,” chairman Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd) wrote Friday morning. “No self-respecting Democrat should accept this brazen Rauner-Trump-DeVos tactic to decimate public schools, rob our children’s classrooms of resources and weaken teachers’ unions. Democrats in Springfield and Mayor Emanuel must unite to reject this unacceptable proposal, and force the parties to get back to the table to negotiate a new deal.

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