State Sen. Patrick Joyce announced 20 school districts across the 40th District will receive more than $11 million in funding to help address the financial challenges of recent years.
“Evidence-based funding continues to show our state’s testament to provide quality education to our students,” said Joyce. “This funding helps provide schools with the best resources possible to ensure we are giving all students a chance to succeed.”
The funding comes from the 2017 Illinois Senate Democrat-backed evidence-based funding formula — an overhaul of the way the state funds K-12 education. The law made school funding more equitable by calculating the needs of individual school districts and basing its state revenue on those needs. The formula takes into account a district’s total enrollment, poverty rate, and number of special education or English language learners, among other factors.
Local schools set to receive funding through the formula: Alternative School (Iroquois-Kankakee Regional Office of Education) – $15,996; Bloom Township High School District 206 – $1,856,896; Bourbonnais School District 53 – $733,179; Braceville School District 75 – $40,454; Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School District 307 – $667,024; Bradley School District 61 – $95,176; Chicago Heights School District 170 – $501,884; Crete-Monee Community Unit School District 201-U – $2,045,967; Flossmoor School District 161 – $255,029; and Herscher Community Unit School District 2 – $1,409.
Also, Kankakee School District 111 – $1,703,404; Manhattan School District 114 – $1,012,469; Park Forest School District 163 – $97,501; Reed-Custer Community Unit School District 255-U – $1,260; Region 07 South Cook Intermediate Service Center 4 – $798,213; Safe School – Intermediate Service Center – $159,717; Safe School (Iroquois-Kankakee Regional Office of Education) – $36,835; South Wilmington Consolidated School District 74 – $2,074; Steger School District 194 – $715,733; and Wilmington Community Unit School District 209U – $277,191.
The Fiscal Year 2025 budget invested $350 million in new funding into students’ success through the evidence-based funding model.
For more information on the FY 25 evidence-based funding distribution, visit the Illinois State Board of Education’s website.