A clear sign of how out of touch the McCain-Palin ticket is with common-folk, the mainstream media has recently brought to light a glaring disparity between the funding public schools receive in that hitherto unknown oasis we call Alaska, and the funding of public schools in Chicago.
According to Newsweek, Governor Palin signed legislation in early 2008 increases public school funding from $26,900 to $73,840. Newsweek Her original proposal was for $77,000 in spending per student. But in the Chicago Tribune, it is reported that Chicago Public Schools spent an estimated $10,400 per pupil. Tribune
In light of the widely publicized school boycotts spearheaded by Rev. James T. Meeks, an Illinois state senator who also serves as the pastor of Chicago’s 22,000 member Salem Baptist Church, aimed at ending disparate funding between Chicago’s inner city schools and their more affluent suburban counterparts whose funding is nearly $17,000 per child, we might begin to realize that the real battle could be to end the disparate funding between Alaska’s public schools and those in the rest of America.