How Much Money Would Your District Gain Under The New School Funding Bill?

A Democrat-backed bill that would overhaul Illinois’ deeply flawed education funding system managed to advance through the General Assembly on the last day of the spring session, albeit without a state budget to fund it.

Senate Bill 1 essentially would change the formula Illinois uses to fund its K-12 public schools by implementing an evidence-based model that sets individual adequacy targets for every district in the state.

A district’s adequacy target — or amount of additional state funding that’s determined to be necessary to adequately educate each student — is calculated based on a number of factors, such as the amount of local resources available, region of the state, percentage of low-income students, technology and class size ratios, among dozens of other indicators...

Click here to read more and to see how much in additional state funding your local district would receive.