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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

The price of spending less on schools than on prisons

"Illinois prisons receive substantially more funding than Chicago schools. In fact, according to a 2012 Vera Institute of Justice report, each year in Illinois we spend three times as much to incarcerate a prisoner as we do to educate a child in Chicago Public Schools."
See: http://buff.ly/1UaJ2Of Cross-posted from Facebook via IFTTT

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