EDGEStatewide AWARENESS Campaign

Everyone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?North Palos 117 Advocacy Group

EDGEStatewide AWARENESS Campaign

Everyone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?Different Perspectives

EDGEStatewide AWARENESS Campaign

Everyone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?Our analysis is focused on Districts in the Middle

EDGEStatewide AWARENESS Campaign

Everyone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?

Current Spend Per StudentSB16 Projected Spend Per Student

$17,923

Example from an SB16 presentation

$17,287$16,650$17,640

Missing Data

EDGEStatewide AWARENESS Campaign

Everyone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?

Less than 10% of School Districts spend more than $15,000 per student.

25% of the School Districts that spend greater than $15,000 per student will be receiving a total of 150 million dollars in supplemental State Aid with SB16.

Differentperspectiveon the same data

EDGEStatewide AWARENESS Campaign

Everyone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?

Doing nothing is not a good option.

We need to provide fair funding for ALL.

EDGEAWARENESS

Everyone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?ADVOCACY

EDGEEveryone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?

EDGEEveryone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?

There are 862 School Districts in our State.

If you don’t speak up, they won’t know your story.

Every School District needs their Community

to help ADVOCATE with them.

EDGEEveryone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?Call Write Email Meet

EDGEEveryone Deserves a Great Education

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What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?

What can you do to help?

3. Contact your State Legislators

2. Spread the word

1. Learn the facts and stay informed

4. Pay a lot of attention the first week of January

5. If a “call to action” is announced, TAKE ACTION

EDGEEveryone Deserves a Great Education

Illinois

What can you do as a School District, elected official or community member?

www.EDGEIllinois.com

www.Facebook.com/EDGEIllinois

@SB16RedFlags

Sign up for Constant Contact emails

How can you stay informed?

EDGEEveryone Deserves a Great Education

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Why We Must Support Public Education

“There is a place in America to take a stand: it is public education. It is the underpinning of our cultural and political system. It is the great common ground. Public education, after all, is the engine that moves us as a society

toward a common destiny… It is in public education that the American dream begins to take shape. The foundation of our democracy depends on public education. If we fail to support public education our quality of life will suffer, our national security will be at risk, and we will lose the freedoms Americans take for granted.” -- Tom Brokaw

Everyone Deserves a Great Education