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Tag: school funding

Pritzker touts $70 million plan for addressing teacher shortage

Pritzker touts $70 million plan for addressing teacher shortage

— March 5, 2023

SPRINGFIELD – Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday, March 3 highlighted a proposed grant program that would direct $70 million per year over the next three years to school districts facing…

  • How Evidence Based Funding has impacted schools five years in

    How Evidence Based Funding has impacted schools five years in

    — August 23, 2022

    SPRINGFIELD – Five years ago this month, Illinois lawmakers passed legislation that overhauled the way public schools in the state are funded. The so-called Evidence Based Funding…

  • State school board presents case for funding increase

    State school board presents case for funding increase

    — April 1, 2021

    SPRINGFIELD – State education officials made their case Thursday, April 1 for a funding increase above and beyond what Gov. J.B. Pritzker has recommended, arguing that schools need…

  • Pritzker warns of budget cuts up to 10 percent without federal action

    Pritzker warns of budget cuts up to 10 percent without federal action

    — September 15, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD – State agency heads are preparing to cut 5 percent of their budgets in the current fiscal year and 10 percent next fiscal year should the federal government fail to provide…

  • New state funds bolster per-student spending

    New state funds bolster per-student spending

    — January 15, 2020

    Per-student spending in many of Metro East’s poorest school districts now exceeds that in many of the region’s most affluent districts, according to data from the Illinois State…

  • Pritzker now supports additional $350 million for education budget

    Pritzker now supports additional $350 million for education budget

    — May 7, 2021

    SPRINGFIELD – Citing an “improved” economic outlook, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Thursday, May 6 his support to increase evidence-based education funding in the state by $350…

  • Commission calls for overhauling early childhood education funding in Illinois

    Commission calls for overhauling early childhood education funding in Illinois

    — March 16, 2021

    SPRINGFIELD – A commission that Gov. J.B. Pritzker appointed in 2019 will soon issue a report calling for a complete overhaul in the way the state handles its budget for early childhood…

  • Survey finds pessimism toward Illinois public schools

    Survey finds pessimism toward Illinois public schools

    — February 18, 2020

    SPRINGFIELD — Most adults in Illinois give the state’s public school system only a so-so grade, but they give slightly higher marks for their own local schools. That’s according…

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