Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a budget for 2024 into law on June 7 that did not provide funding to continue the Invest in Kids Act, a program that currently provides 9,000 low-income students with a tax credit scholarship to be used on education services, which will conclude at the end of 2023 if the state legislature does not vote to save it, according to the Chicago Tribune.
If the legislature refuses to extend the program and lets it expire, thousands of low-income students and families using the initiative will be left without tax-credit scholarships to spend on other education expenses, school choice advocates told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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