With Federal COVID Money Running Out, Advocates Urge State Education Officials to Boost 2025 Budget

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Oct 6, 2023

With the deadline to spend federal COVID relief money approaching, lobbyists, superintendents, school teachers, and advocates made the case for board members to ask Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the state legislature to beef up the education budget with at least a $550 million increase in what’s called “evidence-based funding”

https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2023/10/5/23905727/illinois-education-budget-2025-pritzker-covid-recovery-isbe

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