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...
Aug 15, 2022
The August edition of the Catholic Conference of Illinois Radio Hour is now available. This month’s topics include a discussion on the Tax Credit Scholarship Bill and how it helps local families as well as a dive into marriage and family and HHS regulations on Section...
May 4, 2021
Our Illinois bishops today issued a letter to Catholics across Illinois, urging them to contact state lawmakers to save the Tax Credit Scholarship program from cuts proposed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in his budget plan released in February.
Mar 15, 2021
Bill Woolf, a human trafficking expert who has done trainings for USCCB, talks about the link between parental notice of abortion and raising a red flag about trafficking victims. Next, Rabbi Shlomo Soroka of Aguduth-Israel discusses the importance of the Tax Credit Scholarship program to Jewish schools as the scholarship program for nonpublic schools faces a cut proposed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Then, Tony Cube of USCCB’s Justice for Immigrants initiative talks about the actions President Joe Biden has taken in favor of immigrants since assuming office in late January, and what’s ahead on the political horizon, including the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021. Finally, Sen. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, talks about sponsoring Senate Bill 133, the Ultrasound Opportunity Act.
Feb 17, 2021
Gov. J.B. Pritzker today unveiled his budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1, proposing a cut to the Tax Credit Scholarship program that allows low-income and working-class students to receive scholarships to Catholic and other nonpublic schools. The Catholic Conference today issued a statement in response to Pritzker's proposal.