IL friends: Please join me in supporting the Back on the MAP campaign to end the 1987 ban on access to MAP grants for incarcerated students by signing this letter www.backonthemapil.org
HB2466 passed the house, let’s get in through the senate and to @jbpritzker.bsky.social!
#BackOnTheMAPIL

Our friends from Augustana College testified about the value of college-in-prison and the need to end the ban on MAP grants for incarcerated students at the IL statehouse today! Thank you Rep Carol Ammons for sponsoring HB2466 and Rep Johnson for your support!
backonthemapIl.org #BackOnTheMAPIL

Illinois residents: here’s two simple things you can do right now to support college in prison in IL by helping end the ban on student aid (MAP grants):
1. Sign the letter at www.backonthemapil.org
2. By 4pm central time today: sign a witness slip: my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/...

#BackOnTheMAPIL

This headline should read “restoring” rather than “opening.” We are talking about ending a ban put in place in the tough on crime era that decimated college in prison 30 yrs ago. Hear more from yours truly
#BackOnTheMAPIL
www.wbez.org/education/20...

It's time for Illinois to end the ban on access to financial aid (MAP grants) for incarcerated students. Read the latest coverage of the efforts to restore MAP access, with quotes from BPI's Director of National Engagement, in the link below.

#BackOnTheMapIL

It’s time to end the ban on student aid for incarcerated students in Illinois. #BackOnTheMAPIL

www.wbez.org/education/20...

Starting with ending the ban on access to state financial aid (MAP grants) for incarcerated students.
#BackOnTheMAPIL

There’s a new bill in Illinois to restore access to state level need based student aid — MAP grants — for incarcerated students: HB2466. Thank you Rep Carol Ammons! This year we are going to get #BACKonTheMAPIL
ilga.gov/legislation/...

Help restore MAP funding to incarcerated students in IL by making a few phone calls before the new year, telling Illinois lawmakers to bring HB3740 to a vote! Here’s the info and scripts: bpi.bard.edu/beyond/advoc...

#BACKONTHEMAPIL

Since Pell access has been restored 4 yrs ago, many states have followed with state grant restoration but IL is now behind the curve in building a robust landscape of college degree opportunity in prisons across the state. We can change that now with HB3740 please call the IL senate #BackOnTheMAPIL

There is no opposition to this bill and college in prison has been bipartisan everywhere we’ve seen public funding restored. This bill has just languished in the Senate and all we need to pass it in January is for it to be brought to a vote. Please call before the new year! Let’s get #BackOnTheMAPIL

We’ve been pushing for years to restore student aid (MAP grants) to incarcerated students in IL and we are SO CLOSE now. Please call IL Senate President Don Harmon and tell him you support HB3740 and ask him to bring the bill to a vote. #BackOnTheMapIL
Here’s the info bpi.bard.edu/beyond/advoc...