Dupage Policy Journal

Jeanne Ives’ Breakthrough Ideas will host a town hall meeting Thursday, Sept. 15 focusing on the state’s education system. 

The event will be from 7-9 p.m. at Abbington Distinctive Banquets located at 3S002 IL Route 53 in Glen Ellyn. Ives is a former state representative who has run for governor and congress. 

“Join Breakthrough with Jeanne Ives' Education Town Hall, the kick-off in a series of Town Halls this fall!” Breakthrough Ideas posted on Facebook. “What are you getting in the education system for all your taxes? Come find out at this informative Town Hall featuring Ted Dabrowski, President of Wirepoints (Education Outcomes in IL Public Schools), Frank McCormick of Chalkboard Heresy (Inside Look from a Public School Teacher), & Whistleblower on CRT, and Terry Schilling, President of American Principles Project (National Look at Parental Rights).” 

The discussion will focus on “Insights On Education & Culture In Our Education Systems,” a flyer reads.

Dabrowski recently drew the ire of the Chicago Teacher’s Union for a report noting empty schools in Chicago where as little as 5% of the maximum student population is present in a school. Dabrowski said such schools are failing and are being kept alive to support jobs paying dues to the CTU. 

“Teachers union power politics, weak administrations, and absent political leadership have left Chicago Public Schools with a glaring and intractable problem: increasingly empty, failing schools,” the Wirepoints article reported.

McCormick is a former Waukegan Public Schools employee who notably publicly ripped his school board and administration for blaming poor performance scores on race-based indicators. Lake County Gazette reported.

“Suddenly, this is no longer about her incompetence, but the ghosts of implicit bias and racism haunting our schools, which she will now exorcise through diversity, equity and inclusion rights that will cost the district millions,” McCormick said of Waukegan Public Schools Superintendent Theresa Plascenciain a speech to the school board, according to Lake County Gazette. “The narrative she has seized upon has emboldened the ideological infiltration of critical theories into the district and classroom.”

Schilling has been outspoken in his opposition to the sexualization of kids. He recently condemned “family-friendly” drag shows held at UpRising Bakery and Cafe in Lake in the Hills. He told McHenry Times that “Kid-friendly drag show is right up there with kid-friendly strip club, kid-friendly porn and kid-friendly cigarette — it’s self-evident that all of this is harmful to children unless you’ve been brainwashed to believe that kids should be sexualized." Lake in the Hills cited the bakery for zoning violations following the drag shows.