State aid shrinkage for Illinois school districts
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Since 2010, the state has come up lacking in general state aid for Illinois public school districts every year, shorting them $518 million for the 2012-13 school year alone
From sj-r.com: t’s hard to visualize what a $768 million school funding shortfall looks like.
In general terms, it means every student attending a public school in Illinois has been cheated of an average $1,100 since 2010.
It’s even harder to imagine tacking an additional $400 million onto that figure, but that’s exactly what Gov. Pat Quinn told school districts in January to expect come fiscal 2014, which begins July 1.
Since 2010, the state has come up lacking in general state aid for Illinois public school districts every year, shorting them $518 million for the 2012-13 school year alone, according to Illinois State Board of Education data. As districts large and small struggle to get by, the cuts are being felt in the classroom and, on a larger scale, threaten the future of a state that now ranks dead last in state education funding.
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