Illinois lawmakers allocate $35M to after-school programs
Now, programs like the Central Illinois Boys and Girls Clubs are counting on the distribution of that funding and hoping to restart some of the services they lost. The lack of funding has had a ripple effect on many programs across the state, according to ACT Now.
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In the District 186 Springfield area, 15 after-school programs were left unfunded last June, said Executive Director of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Illinois, Tiffany Mathis Posey. This included eight of the programs ran by the Central Illinois Boys and Girls Clubs and seven by the Springfield Urban League.
Posey said the new funding will have a huge impact on what she calls a 'vital program.'
'What that would look like is restoring the programs that have gone unfunded or that will not reopen,' she said. 'You know, we do this work, we know what we're doing; we want to make sure that kids are supported. And so to have another avenue of funding available to provide after-school programs would be widely impactful.'
After the federal funding for the program dried up, the General Assembly allocated $50 million in last year's budget, which was set to begin in July, but that money is still on hold. Afterschool for Children and Teens Now (ACT Now) said the delay in funding will leave more than 2,000 people unemployed and affect more than 27,000 kids.
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When Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the new budget into law, the $35 million will be directed to the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) to distribute. We reached out to ISBE about the guidelines for distributing the new funds.
'After-school funding for FY26 will be allocated in accordance with ISBE's Part 268 rules,' a spokesperson from ISBE said.
Advocates for after-school programs said they are now at the mercy of ISBE, and that the agency typically distributes funds to school districts.
Previously, the funding was supposed to be split into two groups half to school districts and the other half to nonprofits. The general assembly didn't reappropriate the $50 millions to the next year fund.
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