Posted on 10/25/2024 5:19:54 AM PDT by karpov
The Minority Teachers for Illinois Scholarship Program violates the 14th Amendment, alleges the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) in its Tuesday complaint on behalf of the American Alliance for Equal Rights in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. The racial criteria included in the program have been "excluding students from a state-funded scholarship program because of their race" since its inception, per PLF's press release.
The Minority Teachers for Illinois Scholarship Program is not a private initiative; it is funded directly by appropriations from the state budget. The program received $1.9 million, $4.2 million, and $7 million from Illinois taxpayers in fiscal years 2022, 2023, and 2024, respectively. Illinois Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Highlights reports that the program is set to receive $8 million.
Illinois' teacher demographics do not reflect those of its students: 6.2 percent of Illinois teachers were black and 8.4 percent were Hispanic while 16.5 percent of Illinois students were black and 27.5 percent were Hispanic in 2023. The scholarship program was established by a 1992 Illinois state law to address this disparity.
The program was established to encourage "academically talented Illinois minority students to pursue teaching careers…and alleviate the teacher shortage crisis in this State." To this end, the program offers scholarships to defray the costs of qualifying higher education up to an annual maximum of $7,500 in exchange for one year of teaching in Illinois K-12 schools per year of funding received.
Illinois' teacher shortage persists: 4,096 teaching positions went unfilled and 3,694 were filled by "hiring substitutes, hiring retired educators, combining classes, and increasing class sizes," according to the 2023–2024 Educator Shortage Survey published by the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools.
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So, when do we get our own water fountains?
This has been going on for at least 54 years that I know of, employers were excluding whites in 1970.
We will have to complain about it during White History Month when we’re all recognized as real people.
But half-breed or octaroons K under this?
When I was in grad school, my program had 2 scholarships — one was the Minority Student Scholarship, and the other was the Martin Luther King Scholarship.
I asked if there was any point in applying, and I was told not to waste my time.
But they take that white money to pay for it...
Ya it’s time for whites to turn off the money
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I’m completely over the “protected minority” bull.
Whites will get no protection when they soon become a minority. We are already a minority worldwide, but somehow liberal women will continue to rend their clothes over how evil white men are compared to, say, a bear.
Not until you get that number tattooed onto your arm
But they take that white money to pay for it...
Whatever happened to just donating to The United Negro College Fund?
The minority scholarship is a pittance compared to Illinoisians financing the $1.1 Billion tax increase that is ready to kick in to primarily benefit the “newly favored minority” of Hispanic immigrants.
We Illinoisians are screwed.
To the back of the bus, whitey.
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I remember that after Vietnam it was very difficult for Whites to get a FD position, if they weren’t legacy they had to score 100% on the test and be a veteran to even have a chance.
My grand daughter often gets offers of this kind of scholarship or the other. I think it’s because her first name is “Carmen.”
“...But half-breed or octaroons K under this?...”
Of course. How else would any DEI ever pass a BAR exam? /s
The law falsely claims a “minority” student cannot get a proper education except with a teaching staff that is demographically proportionate, by race/ethnicity with the students.
Unlike Martin Luther King they do not believe in looking at people by the content of their character and not their skin color.
What is worse, is the actual scheme is not seeking to lift up folks who are merely “minority”, no; they want to chose “minorities” with a political bias to the Left.
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