Cynthia Fights For Quality Education for Our Children
-Provided state funds for preschool for all children ages 3-5,
-Helped pass the largest K-12 school funding increase in Illinois history
-Supported funds for renovation and repairs of Chicago schools, sponsored bill to award 1,000 scholarships for students to become teachers
-Supported a bill to provide substantial funding for the renovation and repair of Chicago Schools.
-Worked to prevent massive budget cuts to education

Cynthia Has Her Priorities Straight and Leads by Example
- Protecting Families, Soto has worked to pass tough laws, cracking down on sex offenders, including requiring those convicted of crimes against children to wear electronic monitoring devices.
- Soto has two high quality constituent service offices in the district with dedicated staff helping people to resolve problems day in and day out.
- Soto has regularly organized a broad variety of community information and services events to provide information and direct services to seniors, youth, and families
- At a time when so many are out of work, Soto voted to cut her legislative pay, make it tougher for lawmakers to give themselves pay raises, and require lawmakers to take 12 unpaid furlough days to save state expenses.