(WAND) — Eight school districts across Central Illinois will receive over $3 million in funding on top of the base funding that the state provides.

The school districts receiving the money include:

  • Decatur Public Schools District 61: $1,305,463
  • Springfield School District 186: $1,108,951
  • Macon-Piatt Regional Office of Education 39: $260,224
  • Ball Chatham School District 5: $254,818
  • Menard-Sangamon Regional Office of Education 51: $174,939
  • Rochester School District 3A: $126,477
  • South Fork School District 14: $32,073
  • Edinburg School District 4: $3,844

The money comes from the 2017 evidence-based funding formula, which changed how the state funds K-12 education.

The law made school funding more equitable by basing state revenue on the needs of individual school districts.

Some factors the formula uses include a district's total enrollment, poverty rate and number of special education or English language learners. 

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