About 600 school districts will benefit from $97 million that the Illinois State Board of Education has approved for those with the greatest funding needs.
Nearly all of the districts identified in the plan as eligible for funding will get about three-quarters of the money that had been cut under the budget deal signed into law last month by Gov. Bruce Rauner.
The funds being returned range from a few thousand to tens of millions of dollars. Chicago Public Schools will receive the largest chunk of the money, about $33 million.
Chicago is among 32 districts that are getting 95% of their cut funding restored. Another 546 districts will get 73.6% of their funding restored. The remaining 278 school districts were deemed ineligible.
