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Monday in front of the City Club of Chicago, Chicago Teachers
Union President Stacy Davis Gates quoted James Baldwin that “the
children are always ours.”
“And what comes next is ‘CTU think your children are its
children,’” Gates said. “Yes we do. We do. We do.”
Jonathan Greenberg with Empower Illinois advocates for school
choice.
“If you don’t want your kids learning social studies, U.S.
history from people who hate our country, if you don’t want them
learning from people who think your children belong to them then
you should be empowered to make different choices,” Greenberg
told The Center Square Tuesday.
Davis Gates told the City Club of Chicago Monday there’s an
effort to strip public education of funding.
“Trump has picked his side and he’s spelled it out in ‘Project
2025,’” Davis Gates said. “He is here to win the re-litigation
of the civil war and finish the work of the Confederacy.”
Greenberg said that kind of rhetoric is meant to agitate and
divide. It doesn’t help children, he said.
“None of that helps a family make better choices for their kids.
All it does is try to get people who disagree with them to shut
up, to be scared of them, to be scared to be called a racist,”
Greenberg said.
Greenberg said the so-called “big, beautiful” bill working
through Congress could have a 100% federal tax credit for school
choice scholarships, more generous than Illinois’ Invest in Kids
program that Illinois Democrats allowed to sunset at the end of
2023.
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