Illinois Is BROKE, Ya'll! So Now They Demand Bi-lingual Education For Preschoolers

File under 'You just can't make this stuff up!'

From the Chicago Tribune, 13 September 2010:

As the school year begins, Illinois becomes the first state to mandate that public schools with preschool programs offer a bilingual education to 3- and 4-year-olds who don't speak English.

Under the new regulations, school officials must determine whether students speak another language at home and measure how well they speak and understand English. They then must offer those who need it a seat in a bilingual preschool class, where they study basic academic skills in their native language as they learn English.

But from Carpentersville to Champaign, local school districts are hurrying to comply with the requirements that come without additional funding, even as they brace for another year of dwindling reserves and funding delays.

What are they thinking?

Or, are they assuming, like Kuhlifornia, that no matter how outrageous the behavior, TheOneWe'veBeenWaitingFor will bail them out?

Please, ya'll. If you're registered to vote in Illinois, vote these clowns out.

We don't have any money to send your way, and even if we did, we wouldn't.