The price of spending less on schools than on prisons

Follow @csteditorials Last Monday, Gov. Bruce Rauner referred to the school where I work as a “crumbling prison.” I guess that makes our teachers prison guards and our principal a warden. Rauner’s analogy is way off base. Illinois prisons receive substantially more funding than Chicago schools.  In fact, according to a  2012 Vera Institute of Justice […]