The eleventh-hour effort to save the Invest in Kids tax credit scholarship program failed as Illinois lawmakers adjourned without taking up a proposal to extend it beyond Dec. 31.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Patti Serpa is a single mother of five who relies on a state-sponsored tax credit to send her youngest, 12-year-old Santos, to St. Pius V School, a Catholic grade school in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood that she feels provides him with a better education than his former public school. “Being at St. Pius, it’s a family,” Serpa said in Springfield last week, where she and .
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Patti Serpa is a single mother of five who relies on a state-sponsored tax credit to send her youngest, 12-year-old Santos, to St. Pius V School, a Catholic grade school in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood that she feels provides him with a better education than his former public school. “Being at St. Pius, it’s a family,” Serpa said in Springfield last week, where she and dozens of others .