Of all the states, Illinois the worst of all.
Local taxes bring, two thirds funding for its schools,
inequity rules – taxpayers take the fall.
The state now pays just about a quarter
of school funding while the average is nearly 50 percent.
Illinois relents – from unions get their orders.
Wonder why property taxes soared?
It’s teachers’ pensions, quite excessive, lavishly extreme,
quite a scheme, the unions want still more.
(The Random Poet: 08012023
thwrandompoet.com) / haiku format
<<<< selected sources include: Congressional Research Service – Public funding of elementary and secondary education – Illinois state funding for elementary and secondary education is lowest in nation at 24.1% (state average 47%) – Illinois local funding is highest in nation at 67.4% (state average 44.8%) – U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2015-16 (Fiscal Year 2016), December 2018, Table https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019301.pdf – latest available >>>>
<<<< also a letter from: J. Allen, Hendersonville, N.C. Aug 14, 2023 wsj.com – “I’m a (an Illinois) retired teacher who is enjoying the six-figure pension the teachers unions imposed on the taxpayers of Illinois. What I gave in pension payments over my 34 years paid less than 5% of the money I have received in the 20 years collecting my pension. The unions in league with the Democrats, will bankrupt the state because no one represents the taxpayers … thank goodness I escaped to North Carolina.” >>>>