Jun 19, 2025
On Monday, June 16th the Senate Finance Committee released their portion of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” making changes what the House of Representatives passed on May 22nd regarding ECCA. The full Senate is expected to vote on the bill around July 4th and further...
Apr 30, 2025
The Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA) is a federal proposal (H.R. 833 & S 292) to provide $10 billion annually in scholarships to students. It is an important step in the effort to bring universal school choice to every state. TAKE ACTION TODAY! Ask your...
Mar 3, 2025
UPDATE 4/10/25: The Catholic Conference of Illinois testified in opposition to HB 2827 on March 19th because of the reporting requirements for the nonpublic schools. We did not negotiate the language that was adopted by the committee on April 9th. However, the...
Jan 31, 2025
In collaboration with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Conference of Illinois supports both Senate Bill 292 and H.R. 833, which were recently filed in Congress. These two bills each create the federal Educational Choice for Children Act,...
Feb 28, 2024
The Save My Scholarship campaign has issued a press release in response to the flawed study conducted by WestEd for the Illinois State Board of Education comparing test scores of Tax Credit Scholarship students vs. public school students. As stated in the press...
Nov 9, 2023
The Catholic Conference of Illinois has issued the following statement on the Illinois General Assembly’s failure to act in order to continue the Invest in Kids scholarship program. A PDF of the statement can also be found HERE. Scholarship Recipients Face...
