Join the Illinois Early
Literacy Coalition
The Illinois Early Literacy Coalition invites educators, parents, healthcare professionals, civil rights advocates, and business leaders to join our coalition. Illinois has a literacy crisis, and it is urgent but solvable. We strive to improve public policy and funding to ensure every student in every Illinois classroom receives evidence-based literacy instruction.
Start Your Literacy Journey
Recent Advocacy
Memo to the Treasury – Sign On
The US Treasury Department is accepting comments through December 26 about rules for the Individual Tax Credit for Qualified Contributions to Scholarship Granting Organizations portion of the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). We seek to persuade Treasury to permit the…
Illinois Early Literacy Coalition Encourages Local Transparency on Proficiency Scores
Following Changes to State Proficiency Cut Scores, It’s Up to Locals to Provide Trend Data (Chicago) – On October 30, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) released its annual Illinois Report Card, highlighting the state’s academic and social progress…
Illinois Early Literacy Coalition Requests $70 Million in Literacy Funding for FY27
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Mea Anderson | manderson@stand.org Literacy advocates highlight the importance of a significant budget increase to adequately support implementation of the State’s Comprehensive Literacy Plan (Springfield) – As the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) prepares its…
September 2025 Coalition Meeting – On the Budget
Missed last month’s coalition meeting? No worries! Here you can find the slides explaining the budget process and our FY26 request.