The U.S. Department of Education terminated “Full-Service Community Schools” grants that dozens of Illinois schools utilized over the past few years. Those cuts will go into effect July 1, after a judge denied a preliminary injunction.
Thirty-two Illinois schools will lose the grant funding, including Flinn Middle School and Whitehead Elementary in Rockford, as well as Wegner Elementary and Leman Middle School in the West Chicago Elementary School District 33.
The schools were in the second year of a planned five-year initiative. Susan Stanton says they were awarded $94 million, but the cancellation means they won’t get to spend the around-$70 million they had left…