Illinois Board of Education approves $10.9B budget

Requests for new K-12 funding in Illinois likely to outstrip available resources

The U-46 School Board (60-70% of your property tax bill) voted to hike taxes and issue $32 million dollars in bonds on the same night. I was there to oppose both. Fun story: When I served on the school board, the superintendent urged me to beg Springfield for more money for the district so they could “properly fund education.” The budget was $500 million then. It’s almost $1 billion now. So the district must be doing two times better now? NOPE! Results have gone down, enrollment has gone down an