Bailey wants to cut state school funding even as Illinois is already way behind in full funding.

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MAGA candidate for Illinois Governor Darren Bailey thinks the state spends too much money on our public school students.

A recent report from the Center for Budget and Tax Accountability says we are not even meeting the funding levels demanded by the legislature when they passed the Evidence Based Funding law five years ago.

Darren Bailey’s views on education are not just limited to reducing state funding for what the MAGAs call “government schools”.

Bailey and his wife run a so-called Christian school.

The year before he ran for a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives, Bailey and his wife Cindy launched a fundamentalist Christian school based in Louisville, Illinois.

The Baileys use Bob Jones University textbooks which include history texts that claimed, "The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well."

In its third edition, Bob Jones University Press authors highlighted the Ku Klux Klan's affinity with strict Christian morals, writing in 2001 that the KKK "tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross. Klan targets were bootleggers, wife-beaters, and immoral movies. In some communities it achieved a certain respectability as it worked with politicians."

Reporters found textbooks on the shelves at Bailey's school that teach students that "God regulated but did not forbid slavery."

Bailey’s teachers are instructed to ask students to compare outlawing abortion to ending slavery, and to ask students to explain the strengths of the Three-Fifths Compromise, the part of the U.S. Constitution that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person.

Of course the Baileys run a private Christian school and they can teach whatever racist shit they want.

I don’t want them anywhere near our public schools.

Back to the point of equitable and adequate funding as promised by the EFB law passed five years ago and which the state of Illinois is way behind in achieving.

Bailey wants to cut public school funding even as the state has failed to meet its full funding goals.

The report from the CBTA concludes:

When it enacted the EBF, Illinois put a funding system in place with the potential to ensure every school in the state has the capacity to meet the educational and social-emotional needs of all children it serves. However, that capacity will not exist until the EBF is fully funded—even after accounting for inflation. Unfortunately, at the current rate of investment, that happy day won’t happen until, at best, 2038. Which means generations of Illinois children will continue to receive an inadequately funded education, at a time when education matters more than ever.