CHICAGO — State Senator Javier Loera Cervantes announced that seven school districts across the area will receive more than $6 million in additional funding to help address the financial challenges of recent years.
“Our students deserve a commitment from Illinois to continue to fund schools fairly and equitably,” said Cervantes (D-Chicago). “By using the evidence-based funding formula, we are giving back to the students who need our help the most.”
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 are set to receive a total of $6,358,116 through the formula:
- Sterling Morton High School District 201 - $4,376,195
- Brookfield-LaGrange Park School District 95 - $877,061
- Cicero School District 99 - $654,844
- Berwyn South School District 100 - $335,429
- Lyons School District 103 - $112,770
- Riverside School District 96 - $1,483
- Central Stickney School District 110 – $334
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.
