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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker pitched a $52.7 billion state spending plan Wednesday with more money to address the migrant crisis, education and quantum computing, while proposing tax increases that ...
The Illinois Budget Impasse was a 793-day-long (2 years and 62 days) budget crisis in the state of Illinois. From July 1, 2015, to August 31, 2017, Illinois was without a complete state budget for fiscal years 2016, 2017, and part of 2018. As a result, many state agencies had to cut services or continue borrowing to operate.
School districts that have schools identified as persistently lowest-achieving apply to the state department of education to obtain School Improvement Grants. As part of their grant application, districts must identify which of the four intervention models (i.e., turnaround, restart, closure, or transformation) they intend to implement in each ...
The average annual amount per school of Chicago Annenberg Challenge funds provided in implementation grants to networks of schools rose from $15,000 in 1996, to $38,000 in 1997, to $37,000 in 1998, to a peak of $47,000 in 1999, and then fell to $29,000 in 2000 and to $3,000 in 2001—except in the 18 "breakthrough schools" where annual funding ...
Additionally, graduation rates for high poverty schools are 68% compared to 91% for other schools, then the rate of college attendance is 28% versus 52%. [23] Low-income children are a full year behind by 14, and the total achievement gap between the richest and poorest 10% has grown by 30-40% in 25 years.
Illinois State Sen. Sally Turner, R-Beason (left) and Rep. Bill Hauter, R-Morton, have called the proposed demolition of the Logan Correctional Center "devastating and infuriating" seen here on ...
The 100th General Assembly enacted a total of 1,190 bills into law. [1] Notably among these, it passed the first state budget in more than two years, ending the Illinois Budget Impasse that began under the 99th Illinois General Assembly.
The Illinois School Report Card is a measurement of school performance administered by the Illinois State Board of Education.Each public school district in Illinois, including special charter districts, must submit to parents, taxpayers, the Governor, the General Assembly and the State Board of Education a school report card assessing the performance of its schools and students.