Legislation authorizing this was signed into law in January 2008.
* Information received from the Illinois State Board of Education (www.isbe.state.il.us).
Monday, September 28, 2009
Educational Improvement and School Safety Block Grant*
In 2007, the legislature expanded the Educational Improvement and School Safety Block Grant to include nonpublic schools. The program provides payment to public and nonpublic schools to pay for the litany of health and safety mandates the state applies to these schools. There was an appropriation last year of $74,841,000, which amounts to $36.01 per pupil for 2008-2009.
* Information received from the Illinois State Board of Education (www.isbe.state.il.us).
* Information received from the Illinois State Board of Education (www.isbe.state.il.us).
