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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — About 600 Illinois school districts will have $97 million in state funds restored after a budget deal brokered last month that cut money for education.
The funds, which are a part of a plan approved Wednesday by the Illinois State Board of Education and supported by Gov. Bruce Rauner, range from a few thousand dollars to $33 million for Chicago Public Schools.
A budget deal to fill a $1.6 billion hole in the current budget that Rauner signed into law last month transferred $1.3 billion from state funds that pay for a variety of programs and made 2.25 percent across the board cuts, including cuts to education.
It stipulated that $97 million of the cuts could be restored for "financially distressed" school districts.
Here's a look at the districts with some of the largest lump sums of money restored:
City of Chicago School District - $33,278,781
Rockford School District - $2,063,933
Elgin Area Unit Schools - $2,138,981
Waukegan Schools - $1,662,752
Aurora East Unit District - $1,562,400
Cicero School District - $1,491,604
Plainfield School District - $1,364,959
Round Lake Community Unit District - $719,390
J S Morton High School District- $700,971
Carpentersville School District - $699,803
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