Reject ploy to hike taxes for education

State government thinks educating Illinois children is about money, not learning.

The Illinois State Board of Education regularly lowers the achievement bar so we can keep wishfully thinking no child's being left behind. The General Assembly continues its constant push to plow more money into the insatiable public school pig, with no interest in actually improving education.

SB2288 is the latest incarnation of the so-called tax swap (see also HB750) that the Illinois Senate has already rammed through committee and onto the Senate floor. It promises $8 billion in tax hikes on workers and businesses, and has no provisions for improving achievement.

The debate about education should be about quality and value in education, not blindly funding the government school system. Interesting that the pro-tax crowd wants to change Illinois school funding, but opposes a Constitutional Convention.

Springfield: NO on SB2288 and its ilk.

Chris Jenner

Cary