Halpin Announces Over $4 million Coming to Local School Districts Through Evidence-Based Funding

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State Senator Mike Halpin announced that 23 school districts across Western Illinois will receive over $4 million in evidence-based funding.

“If we want to give children across Western Illinois the best opportunity for success in the modern world, it happens through education,” said Halpin (D-Rock Island). “The evidence-based funding model works; it gives extra funding to school districts to give students better outcomes.”

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.

School districts across Western Illinois set to receive funding through the formula include:

·         Abingdon-Avon School District 276: $214,751
·         Bushnell-Prairie City School District 170: $35,769
·         Carbon Cliff-Barstow School District 36: $27,518
·         Colona School District 190: $72,476
·         East Moline School District 37: $171,819
·         Galesburg School District 205: $450,160
·         Hampton School District 29: $65,868
·         Knoxville School District 202: $103,887
·         Macomb School District 185: $455,164
·         Mercer County School District 404: $33,753
·         Moline-Coal Valley School District 40: $1,100,599
·         Monmouth-Roseville School District 238: $585,874
·         Orion School District 223: $33,868
·         Riverdale School District 100: $41,668
·         Rock Island-Milan School District 41: $558,724
·         Rockridge School District 300: $14,569
·         ROWVA School District 208: $8,362
·         Sherrard School District 200: $116,468
·         Silvis School District 34: $96,356
·         United Township High School District 30: $128,930
·         West Prairie School District 103: $8,330
·         Regional Office of Education #26: $2,312
·         Regional Office of Education #33: $63,121

The Fiscal Year 2024 budget invested $350 million in new funding into students’ success through the evidence-based funding model.

For more information on the FY 24 evidence-based funding distribution, visit the Illinois State Board of Education’s website.

***Courtesy of State Senator Mike Halpin***

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