Strong public schools that serve all kids are crucial for strong communities. Congress is considering undermining public schools with a massive tax giveaway for private school vouchers.

Let's make the call for PUBLIC SCHOOLS!

Join us for another virtual phone bank to stop federal vouchers on THURSDAY, May 22nd at 6:00pm CT.

Congress could create a national school voucher program—snuck into a larger bill giving tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy paid for with cuts for everyone else, including healthcare, Social Security and our public schools!

The proposed federal voucher program could funnel more than $5 billion in public dollars every year to private—mostly religious—schools. Private schools can and do discriminate on the basis of LGBTQ+ status, disability status, religion, and more. In contrast, our public schools must educate all kids. But even though 90% of all kids in Illinois attend public school, the majority of our public schools still aren’t adequately funded!

Illinois just ended a state school voucher program (“Invest in Kids”) last year that sent millions of tax dollars to religious schools that discriminate. Help us stop vouchers from coming back to Illinois via a national school voucher program!

The US House has a Republican majority by only the slimmest of margins, and the truth is, most voters, including most Republicans, want more money for public schools, not for private school vouchers.

So, we'll be phone banking to constituents in key Illinois congressional districts to urge them to call their member of Congress because a federal voucher program will hurt the public schools at the heart of their communities.

Sign up here, and you'll get an email link the morning of the phonebank. Then hop on Zoom at 6:00pm CT to meet other volunteers, get a training on our phone bank tools, and to start calling voters! (Phone bankers who've made calls with us on 4/28, 5/5 or 5/12 can join at 6:30pm!)

This event is sponsored by: Illinois Families for Public Schools, Network 49, Indivisible Evanston, Indivisible Shawnee, Learning Disabilities Association of Illinois, AAUW of Naperville, Defense of Democracy Illinois, Dems 45, and United Northwest Side.