Parents of students in Barrington Unit District 220’s Chinese language immersion program have been working to secure private funding and cut costs as officials struggle over continuing the program after its federal funding was lost.
The elimination of $1.2 million from a grant that should have helped pay for four more years of the program threw a curve ball into the district’s budgeting process, which had seemed to be going more smoothly than in recent years.
And another wrinkle Tuesday was the progression of a state bill that would call into question the district’s revenue assumptions for next year if overall property values declined.
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