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It calls for increasing university funding in Illinois by about $135 million each year over the next 15 years. That new funding would be distributed under a formula that sets an adequacy target for each institution and gives priority for new funding to those institutions furthest away from their target. Rep. Carol Ammons said funding for the plan would be subject to legislative appropriations each year while HB 1581 merely establishes a policy under which the new money would be distributed.
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Seems like this is yet another way to push salary hikes to pad the pensions. The students won’t see the benefits on this funding. Or the taxpayers. Ever.
Students won’t see the funding because they don’t even attend state schools. Enrollment is down, way down, and with demographic changes, there’s an inescapable doom loop coming.
Funding for the foreign students and ILLEGAL INVADERS not the children of the TAXPAYERS they want to fund their dream .
Evidence-Based Funding has shown to provide new State funded school buildings for Districts like Cahokia Heights and Venice that have deplorable student educational statistics while neighboring better student performing districts have to go to the local taxpayers for similar improvements. Once again penalize the well performing districts and reward the poor performing districts and, should this pass, coming to a college statewide.
$135M in funding increase each year…for 15YEARS?! Over $2B in new spending over the next 15 years on friggin education!! These organizations have no motivation to reduce spending, focus their product on value, be competitive…they just go back to the tax payer well and get another $2B. What’s this money going to be used for? What? No details other than to say, they don’t have enough… Another $2B our great Grandchildren will have to pay…pathetic
The legislature are thieves and irresponsible morons.