Budgeting error lands DuPage County school district in financial distress: ‘We are performing education triage’ – Chicago Tribune/MSN

Some opponents of the district’s referendum proposal say the solution is not raising local property taxes, but consolidating District 66 into one of the neighboring districts in DuPage County. “When you look at the state of Illinois, we are probably the worst in the nation when it comes to too many school districts, and too few schools in each district,” said Eric Gustafson, alderman of Ward 6 in Darien.
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your dime your dance floor
3 years ago

I think Florida, a state of 20 miilion people has about 70 school districts and Illinois, a state of 12 million people, has over 650 school districts. Think of the billions of dollars saved annually with a reduction in all that bureaucracy and long term savings of all those bureaucrats not collecting high paying pensions for 25+ years, if we were just like Florida.

Fed up neighbor
3 years ago

A Forensic audit needs to be performed on all Illinois school districts, especially VVSD 365U in Bolingbrook and Romeoville

Last edited 3 years ago by Fed up neighbor

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