What specific education reforms do you support and why?

While you’re mulling that over, I thought I’d ressurect part of a pre-election subscribers-only post for you today…

A+ Illinois, which has advocated for an SB750-type solution to education funding and property tax woes, has been active in this year’s election. They’re not giving money to candidates, but they are sending out a lot of direct mail and doing robocalls. Here’s an e-mail from an A+ Illinois spokesperson:

We’ve dropped somewhere around $200K worth of mail and robocalls to targeted voters in over 4,000 precincts across roughly ten days.

Our outreach is targeted with far more sophistication than most legislative races. For example, we’ve been able to cross-reference voter registration lists with marketing data to focus our message on registered voters who are parents with children under the age of 18 in the home. […]

In addition to the direct mail and robocalls, we’ve obtained the e-mail addresses for roughly 1/4 of the voters we’re targeting, and they’ll be getting 2-3 emails from us in coming days

I’m told we can expect this group to spend a ton of money next spring. Here’s pretty much their entire mail program: