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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 Center Square) – Gov. Brian Kemp is proposing an additional $50 million for school safety grants. The new funding would bring the total for the grants to $159 million, with each school ...
House Republican lawmakers passed a school security bill Wednesday that would create a new grant program for schools to help pay for training and other costs associated with arming staff members ...
(The Center Square) – Taxpayers are set to give the struggling electric bus industry a jolt after Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced nearly $20 million for 70 zero-emission buses at nine Illinois ...
Since 2008, states have reduced their school funding from taxes by 12%, the most pronounced drop on record. [15] The majority of targeted school funding reforms have been in response to court orders, often due to lawsuits. [16] Despite some efforts to improve school funding, 60% of schools report that their facilities need repair. [17]
A block grant in the United States is a grant-in-aid of a specified amount from the federal government of the United States to individual states and local governments to help support various broad purpose programs, such as law enforcement, social services, public health, and community development.
Lobby security upgrades were the highest-priority projects in the amended $40 million School Capital Fund for Buncombe County Schools.
A flat income tax, which taxes all income levels at the same rate, is required by the current Illinois state constitution. [4] Illinois is one of 11 U.S. states with a flat income tax; seven states have no income tax; 32 other states use graduated income taxes, which tax higher incomes at a higher rate. [5]