Just when finish up my PDF of the latest version of the Tax and Education Reform Plan, (with podcst to boot) Illinois' Edcuation Bureaucracy comes up with a figleaf reform of their own.
Good for them.
Mine's better.
It talks about Tax reform.
1. Zero out the local property tax for schools
2. Pass HB750 increases at the state level
These result in a $2-3 billion dollar tax cut for Illinois. It constitutes a REAL, not FAKE, tax swap for Illinois.
It talks about Education Reform.
1. Phase out the School District - it is an essentially useless entity designed to spend money
2. Convert EVERY Illinois public school to an independent charter school
3. Provide Every Child in Illinois with a $7,000 scholarship (indexed to inflation) to be used a ANY participating school
4. Replaces ALL state mandates with an annual, uniform testing regime that covers a broad and sequenced set of rich content standards.
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Any Thougths? (but spare me the "it's not politically possible" complaint. Though I know that, the fact is that it will never be politically possible to reform education until some one actually proposes real reform.)
