School Districts React to Budget ProposalA day after Gov. Pat Quinn proposed cutting $400 million from an already underfunded state education system, local school districts are speaking out. “We're looking at an additional shortfall of $750,000 again next year," Taylorville Community School District Superintendent Dr. Gregg Fuerstenau said. "That's on top of the $1 million that we lost for fiscal year [20]13."
Fuerstenau said the looming cuts to state education funding is one of the reasons South Elementary School will close its doors at the end of the school year.
Taylorville is not alone in this budget battle. The state is supposed to provide districts with more than $6,000 per student each year. It is a promise lawmakers have never kept, providing 95 percent of that amount two years ago, 89 percent last year and, if the governor's proposal goes through, 82 percent for 2014.
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