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Kate Grossman | WBEZ

What to know about the ‘school choice’ scholarship program now up for renewal in Springfield

Students, parents and faculty chant and hold signs during a September rally at St. Sabina Academy in Auburn Gresham urging the General Assembly to save the Invest in Kids scholarship program. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

State lawmakers this week are considering extending the controversial Invest in Kids private school scholarship program. The five-year-old program is set to sunset at the end of this year, but there’s a strong push by supporters to keep it alive. The fall veto legislative session began on Tuesday and ends on Thursday. A compromise proposal from House Democrats for extending the program calls for sharpening the focus on lower-income students and shrinking it to a $50 million program.

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