"Illinois Passes Landmark Funding Bill Creating Tax Credit Scholarship, Sending More Money to Poor Schools" from The 74
Illinois lawmakers passed a landmark compromise that would revamp the way schools are funded and create the state’s first private school choice program.
The Senate on Tuesday afternoon voted 38-13 to approve the plan, a day after it made it through the House.
“There will not be another generation of students subject to inequity, the worst in the country, after this bill becomes law,” Democratic Sen. Andy Manar, who sponsored it, said, according to the Chicago Tribune.