Bill Text: IL HB3082 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Appropriates $50,000,000 to the State Board of Education for the purpose of providing grants for community learning centers to support afterschool programs and community schools. Effective July 1, 2025.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-07-01 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3082 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB3082-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3082 Introduced , by Rep. Aar�n M. Ort�z SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
Appropriates $50,000,000 to the State Board of Education for the purpose of providing grants for community learning centers to support afterschool programs and community schools. Effective July 1, 2025.
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AN ACT concerning appropriations.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. Findings; grants.
(a) The General Assembly finds all the following:
(1) A strong research base supports that afterschool
programs and community schools improve academic achievement,
support social and emotional growth, help keep communities
safe, and support the needs of working families.
(2) Data supports that there is always a greater need for
these programs than there is funding for programming.
(3) Students and families in all communities should have
access to these services regardless of income status.
(4) Illinois as a nationwide leader in child development
recognizes that we must move towards an education system that
provides afterschool for all.
(b) The State Board of Education shall make grants
available for community learning centers separate and apart
from any federal appropriations.
(1) The purpose of community learning center programs is to
provide opportunities to establish or expand activities that:
(A) provide opportunities for academic enrichment,
including providing tutorial services to help students
(particularly students who attend low-performing schools), to

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meet the challenging state academic standards;
(B) offer students a broad array of additional services,
programs, and activities, such as youth development
activities, service learning, nutrition and health education,
drug and violence prevention programs, counseling programs,
arts, music, physical fitness, and wellness programs,
technology education programs, financial literacy programs,
environmental literacy programs, mathematics, science, and
career and technical education programs, internship or
apprenticeship programs, and other ties to an in-demand
industry sector or occupation for high school students that
are designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic
program of participating students;
(C) offer families of students served by community
learning centers opportunities for active and meaningful
engagement in their children's education, including
opportunities for literacy and related educational
development; and
(D) support the whole needs of students including
providing extended learning time, integrated students support,
family engagement, and collaborative leadership structures in
schools as part of the community schools model, as research
validated strategy to promote equity in education.
(2) Public and private entities, including Local Education
Agencies, such as public school districts, public university
laboratory schools approved by the State Board of Education,

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State authorized charter schools, area vocational centers,
Regional Offices of Education, Intermediate Service Centers,
community-based organizations, including faith-based
organizations, Indian tribes or tribal organizations, as
defined in the Indian Self-Determination and Education Act,
and other public and private entities or a consortium of two or
more such agencies, organizations, or entities are eligible to
apply.
(3) Each grantee must propose to serve high-poverty schools
or schools eligible for schoolwide programs under Section 1114
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by
the Every Student Succeeds Act Title I Part A, such as schools
in which not less than 40% of the children are from low-income
families.
(4) Individual awards should not exceed $225,000 per site,
such as the physical location where grant-funded services and
activities are provided to participating students and adults.
(5) Successful applicants may reapply via continuing
application for up to 4 additional years. Funding in the
subsequent years will be contingent upon compliance with
federal and State law, State grant-making rules, passage of
sufficient appropriations for the program, and satisfactory
performance in the preceding grant period.
(6) The State Board of Education shall issue a grant
application to select a technical assistance provider to
support grantees. Grantees must participate in compliance and

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technical assistance activities. This technical assistance
provider must also develop an advisory board of grantees to
provide feedback to the State Board of Education on the
feasibility of grant management practices and the needs of the
students.
(7) The program objectives of this grant are:
(A) Schools will improve student achievement in core
academic areas.
(B) Schools will show an increase in student attendance
and graduation from high school.
(C) Schools will see an increase in the social-emotional
skills of their students.
(D) Programs will collaborate with the community.
(E) Programs will coordinate with schools to determine the
students and families with the greatest need.
(F) Programs will provide ongoing professional development
to program personnel.
(G) Programs will collaborate with schools and
community-based organizations to provide sustainable programs.
Elements of the community school's model can be offered by
community learning centers.
The State Board of Education must provide public reports
annually on the spending of this programming and plans for
future competitions.
The State Board of Education must issue continuing
application materials annually within 30 days of the start of

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the fiscal year.
The State Board of Education must name a technical
assistance provider to support these grantees.
Section 10. The amount of $50,000,000, or so much of that
amount as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General
Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for the purpose of
providing grants for community learning centers to support
afterschool programs and community schools.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1,
2025.