Illinois Ends Race-Based Teacher Scholarship Restrictions, Ending Legal Challenge

IL strips explicit racial criteria from minority teacher scholarship program – Black Chronicle

Rather than attempt to defend a longstanding state-funded scholarship program against claims in court that it intentionally discriminated against white applicants, the state of Illinois has rewritten the law to end explicit racial preferences in the program altogether.

Illinois ends race-based teacher scholarship restrictions, ending legal challenge

Illinois has eliminated racial preferences in a state-funded scholarship program for aspiring teachers, following a legal challenge that argued the policy violated constitutional protections.

IL strips explicit racial criteria from minority teacher scholarship program - Regional Media News

Rather than attempt to defend a longstanding state-funded scholarship program against claims in court that it intentionally discriminated against white applicants, the state of Illinois has rewritten the law to end explicit racial preferences in the program altogether. Just before the Thanksgiving Day holiday, Gov. JB Pritzker quietly signed into law House Bill 3065, which changed the state law that governs the state's so-called Minority Teacher…