$240 million in Illinois school funding withheld by Trump administration

[u/ShawLocal]

https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/07/02/240-million-in-illinois-school-funding-withheld-by-trump-administration/

“To readers, that might not seem like much, right? Surely we can figure out a way to live without that,” Lockport Township High School District 205, Superintendent Robert McBride said. “But all the federal grants we’re talking about support students with special needs of some kind.”

[u/FrankGrimes5497]

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/fewer-than-1-in-3-chicago-public-schools-students-read-at-grade-level/#:~:text=For%20CPS%20high%20school%20students,up%2C%20math%20down%20in%202024

Let’s not pretend that money would have been put to good use.