A state program intended to ensure equitable funding for Illinois school districts serving low-income communities was lambasted by critics this week.
Instructor Hiral Amin assists student Bozhena Shuhyta as fourth graders take part in an English language learners program at Liberty Elementary School in Bartlett on Sept. 30, 2022. Such programs received money from the state’s Evidence-Based Funding program.
By providing only the minimum required funding each year — and no new funding in 2021 — the state has underfunded EBF by $7.2 billion, PEER IL officials said. “At the current rate of funding from EBF, this same Vandalia student will be 28 years old before her school district begins to receive 90% of the promised funding in state and local dollars needed to provide Illinois public school students with an adequate education,” PEER IL officials said.
“The Evidence-Based Funding formula is working,” she said. “While we have a ways to go before all school districts are fully funded, we have made extraordinary progress in just six years.”
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