Chicago Public Schools are suing the Illinois State Board of Education!

The suit accuses the state of having “two separate and demonstrably unequal systems” for the funding of schools in Chicago, which are predominately Black and Latinx.

On Tuesday 14th of Feb the suit was filed at Cook County Chancery Division on behalf of five Black and Latino CPS families.

The suit asks that the judge stops the state from distributing funds “in a manner that discriminates against plaintiffs,”.

It also says that the state be found in violation of the Illinois Civil Rights Act. This is for the support of the unequal funding system because large amounts of CPS students are low-income minority students. The rest of the state is majority white. The suit says:

“The state treats CPS’s schoolchildren, who are predominantly African-American and Hispanic, as second-class children, relegated to the back of the state’s education funding school bus,”

Read more on ABS.