Mar 3, 2025
House Bill 2827 would require every non-public school in Illinois to provide the name, date of birth and address of each child attending its school along with name and address of at least one parent to both the State and regional offices of education and/or Chicago...
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...
Oct 12, 2023
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, We, the Catholic bishops of Illinois, write with a sense of urgency. Unless the General Assembly acts to renew the Invest in Kids scholarship program, more than 9,000 children currently relying on this program to attend a...
Jun 21, 2023
CCI released a joint statement alongside Empower Illinois, Big Shoulders Fund and Agudath Israel about where the Invest in Kids Act currently stands.
A pdf can be found HERE and the full text is also below.
