GOP gubernatorial candidate Paul Schimpf is backing parent efforts to remain involved in their childrens’ curriculum.
“Taxpayers deserve to know how their dollars are being spent and that includes the tax dollars that go into schools, but even more so, parents deserve to know what their children are being taught,” Schimpf said in a press release. “I don’t support the state controlling what’s being taught in the classroom, but it’s imperative that parents can, at a bare minimum, fully understand what their kids are being taught. In many cases, kids spend more time with their teachers than with their parents during the week. As a parent myself, we have a right to curriculum transparency and educators have an obligation to keep parents informed.”
Schimpf is one of the Republicans running to be governor of Illinois. The other GOP candidates are State Sen. Darren Bailey (R-Xenia), Jesse Sullivan, Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin, McHenry County businessman Gary Rabine, Max Solomon, and Emily Johnson. The primary will be held on June 28.
"As a state senator, I consistently voted for local control of education," Schimpf stated on his website. "In June of 2021, our campaign proposed an Illinois Parents Bill of Rights when others were not even considering the issue. We believe that curriculum transparency should be a requirement for state education funding."
Schimpf was previously state senator of Illinois’ 58th District from 2017 to 2021. He lives in Monroe County.
In the fall of 2020, when Gov., J. B. Pritzker shut down the Metro East citing flawed data, Schimpf was a hefty critic. "As more and more facts call into question the accuracy of the positivity rate for Region 4, I find it unconscionable that the State of Illinois is shutting down businesses and destroying livelihoods based on a metric that is clearly neither meaningful nor accurate," Schimpf said at the time.
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