Our Springfield Agenda outlines our budgetary, administrative, and policy priorities for 2026 legislative session.

This tool, specifically for parents and educators, offers concrete steps you can take to create a Dual Language program your school district.

Safe and Healthy Living provides immigrant families with cost-friendly, culturally and linguistically informed resources in the areas of legal, housing, food, and mental health, plus strategies to help prepare for uncertain times.

Investments in our state’s Latino communities are investments in everyone that calls Illinois home. And policies that promote equity for Latinos in education, housing, and immigration, are essential to the promise of making Illinois the “best state to raise a family.”

En 2021, sólo el 26% de los adultos latinos de 25 a 64 años en Illinois obtuvieron títulos de asociado o superiores, el logro educativo más bajo de todos los grupos raciales/étnicos. Para entender mejor la disparidad en los logros educativos, el Latino Policy Forum inició el Illinois Latino College Landscape Study en asociación con el Illinois Workforce and Education...

Más del 50% de la población latina de Illinois vive en los suburbios. El Latino Policy Forum, en colaboración con The Metropolitan Planning Council y el Great Cities Institute de UIC, ha elaborado un nuevo análisis de los retos y oportunidades a los que se enfrentan los latinos que viven en comunidades suburbanas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6-cnWS6mSY

This handbook is presented with the goal of achieving increased academic outcomes and the lifelong success of English Learners. It is designed to support school leaders who are working with students across the state speaking languages other than English. Along with extensive research and legal guidance, the handbook honors the…