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Researchers suggest more state funding for schools would lower property taxes

— December 22, 2019

SPRINGFIELD — A pair of researchers are suggesting the best way to reduce property taxes in Illinois is for the state to take over a greater share of funding for public schools and…

Money matters: How school funding inequities affect students, taxpayers
— October 9, 2019

SPRINGFIELD — Education officials in Illinois say the state is making solid progress under its new evidence-based funding program in narrowing the wealth-based disparities among school…
Budget analysts: Evidence-based school funding working, needs more funding
— April 2, 2019

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ new evidence-based school funding model is effectively driving added funding to the state’s neediest school districts, but the state must double its annual…
Experts look to tweak school-funding formula in Illinois
— July 10, 2018

Despite a new, highly touted school-funding formula in place, a huge gap between the haves and the have-nots still exists. Funding for Illinois school districts ranges from schools…
Kane, Kendall school leaders talk funding, staff diversity
— September 25, 2017

School funding, technology in the classroom and the diversity of teaching staffs were all hot topics of discussion on as local school district superintendents gathered for a roundtable…

Pritzker signs bill phasing in $40K minimum teacher pay
— August 24, 2019

SPRINGFIELD — Some teachers in Illinois will get a pay raise starting next year, thanks to a bill that Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Thursday, Aug. 22. House…
Property tax relief on the way — for some
— February 6, 2019

From Antioch to Rantoul, residents in some Illinois communities will be seeing property tax relief. Twenty-eight school districts — nearly three-quarters of which are in Cook County…
Madison, St. Clair and Monroe schools benefit under new state funding
— April 18, 2018

Metro East public school districts will variously see $200 to $2.4 million in additional state funding this month under a long-anticipated revision of Illinois’ school funding formula….