Democrats unveiled a report that ultimately calls for Illinois taxpayers to pay $1.4 billion more to fund public universities.
Robin Steans, president of Advance Illinois, said the funding formula laid out in the report is much like a funding formula executed in Illinois K-12 schools. Steans says K-12 is seeing all kinds of success despite Illinois students experiencing record low literacy rates and math proficiency rates.
State Rep. Paul Jacobs, who serves on the House appropriations committee for higher education, said universities have to have a product students want and that his five grandkids chose schools out of state. Jacobs said the Commission on Equitable Public University Funding never approached the appropriations committee.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year 2025 would increase public university funding by about $24.6 million.
Story from Illinois Radio Network
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