The school funding hustle

Apparently there are three parts and this is the third one and it is subtitled "The Democrat Way" courtesy of the Illinois Review. Stay on this school funding tack for a minute and here's a telling excerpt:

Recently, the Rev. James Meeks, a State Senator from Chicago, called for a boycott of Chicago schools to bring attention to how Illinois funds schools. He alleges that Chicago schools are short-changed by the present formula which depends heavily on real estate taxes. He wants Chicago school children to travel to Winnetka, a northern suburb, and enroll in New Trier schools.

New Trier H.S. scored near the top on the ACT exam. Rev. Meeks assumes that if students from the inner city, that is to say, African American kids, attended school at New Trier, they would also score as highly as the Winnetka students.

A few years ago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson pulled the same stunt. Only, he went to a southwestern suburb and made his pitch for more funding, at a Naperville school. It turned out that the Naperville school system in question received less funding per pupil than did the Chicago Public Schools and yet achieved higher scores on standard tests. The Rev. Jackson failed to do his homework.

There's more of course but you'll have to go there and read it.