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Voucher programs deepen segregation. Across several different states, voucher programs have shown to contribute to a racial and class divide.

The Chicago Board of Education approved a resolution Wednesday calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to reject the Trump administration’s federal tax-credit scholarship program.

The Chicago Board of Education approved a resolution Wednesday calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to reject the Trump administration’s federal tax-credit scholarship program.

The board passed a resolution that criticizes efforts from the Trump administration to “expand and incentivize voucher or publicly funded scholarships for private schools.”

The school board’s vote will come as Gov. JB Pritzker remains quiet on whether he will opt Illinois into a new, federal tax-credit scholarship program.

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Among the decisions facing Gov. JB Pritzker in coming months is whether to opt into a new federal school voucher program. The program enables donors to give up to $1,700 to scholarship-granting organi...

"Funding for our public schools should be sustainable and stable," writes Claire McIntyre of the League of Women Voters of Greater Rockford.

Vouchers are not a new innovation; they are a policy rooted in exclusion. Also, the need for more cycling safety education and Trump's likeness to the late Juan Perón.

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