Steve Balich | Steve Balich
Steve Balich | Steve Balich
Homer Township Supervisor and Will County Board member Steve Balich is calling for school vouchers to be implemented in the state as school boards aligned with teachers' unions and the unions themselves are being questioned.
"The answer to the problem is that we go to vouchers and the voucher money stays with the kids," Balich told Will County Gazette. "That voucher money stays with the kids that have competition in the schools. So if the teachers want to lock down if parents can send their kids to a school that doesn't park why [do] the teachers want to teach Critical Race Theory that the parents can kind of send their kids somewhere else. So with even supplying fuel because one reason that these public school success vouchers don't have a choice."
Balich’s comments come as River Forest District 90 School Board President Ralph Martire, a teacher's union lobbyist and political activist, is reportedly pushing a failed equity-based teaching methodology for Oak Park and River Forest High School, West Cook News reported. Martire serves as executive director of The Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, a public employee union-funded think tank. Its backers include the state's two largest teacher's unions — the Illinois Education Association, and the Illinois Federation of Teachers — as well as AFSCME Council 31.
Chicago Public Schools has 340,000 children over 522 campuses and is the third-largest school district in the country, according to the system's website. It has an operating capital of $6.92 billion.
In January, CPS’s union stance led to children remaining in learning after planned work action, Chicago City Wire reported.
The CTU is also accused of falsifying a narrative to make it appear as though children infected two mothers with COVID who later died, Chicago City Wire reported. One of the mothers was found to have drank herself to death, while the cause of COVID for the other was inconclusive and not specifically attached to any source of transmission, such as schools as the CTU claimed.
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