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Sylvia Puente - Public School Funding

Sylvia Purnte explains the objectives of the Education Funding Advisory Board (EFAB) which she chaired and served on from 2009-2016. She also talks about her role in the state's Early Learning Council, made up of seventy individuals from both the private and public sectors. Sylvia also discusses bilingual education in the new Evidence Based School Funding model. Among the Chicago Public School issues she reviews are the 1995 Chicago Reform Act and the work being done by the Latino Policy Forum.