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The Austin facility, one of the community’s largest employers, heavily relies on the federal-state funding, which puts its future at risk, state Rep. Camille Lilly said last week.
That’s good news, though some advocates say West Side students continue to suffer from too little funding over the years.
Ald. Chris Taliaferro is collecting ideas about how to spend $500,000 of $1.3 million allocated to the ward in “menu money.”
Parents and teachers from Chicago’s West Side and Oak Park attended a legislative forum last week at which funding and other issues were discussed.
Youth Can Chicago, Broader Urban Involvement & Leadership Development, and Hope Institute Learning Academy are among 20-some Chicago organizations working with youth to receive funding from the Emerson Collective.
Because fewer students showed up on enrollment day, there will be more funding cuts on the West Side.
A longtime Austin resident urges his neighbors to advocate for their West Side schools, not charters.
The Democrat-controlled legislature and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner still don’t have a new state spending plan.
State Rep. La Shawn Ford helped secure the funding, which will be used to provide crisis intervention to North Austin residents with critical health needs.
Longtime resident Renna Thomas urges West Siders to support those organizations offering services to everyone in the community rather than just a select few.