AURORA, Ill. – It’s well known that Democratic state Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia really doesn’t like charter schools – and now voters know why.

According to Illinois Review, Rep. Chapa LaVia has received financial backing from various teacher unions over the years, to the tune of nearly $40,000. Chapa LaVia’s benefactors include the radical Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois Education Association and the Illinois Federation of Teachers.

And what have the unions received for their “investment” in the lawmaker, who just so happens to chair the House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee?

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Illinois Review reports that Chapa LaVia is pushing legislation that would allow local school boards to block charters in their districts, prohibit charters from advertising, and extend a moratorium on virtual charter schools that use Web video for instruction.

Those items are all high on the teacher unions’ wish list.

Chapa LaVia’s also has a bill that would prevent “charters from operating near the site of any school that has been closed in the past decade – closing off much of Chicago from charters,” the news site reports.

The objective of Chapa LaVia’s agenda is to “put charter schools at a severe disadvantage against regular public schools – especially those with poor academic records,” Paul Kersey of the Illinois Policy Institute wrote in a recent commentary.

It’s no wonder Illinois’ teacher unions have been such enthusiastic backers of Chapa LaVia, though the lawmakers wasn’t able to deliver on one of her agenda items.

WICS.com reports that House members recently voted down LaVia’s bill to eliminate the Illinois Charter School Commission’s power to grant appeals for denied charter school applications.