Everyone Deserves a Great Education
Equalized School Funding
Senate Bill 16
Why does the school funding model in Illinois need to change and what is SB16?
Everyone Deserves a Great Education
Why We Must Support Public Education
“There is a place in America to take a stand: it is public education. It is the
underpinning of our cultural and political system. It is the great common
ground. Public education after all is the engine that moves us as a society
toward a common destiny… It is in public education that the American dream
begins to take shape. The foundation of our democracy depends on public
education. If we fail to support public education our quality of life will suffer,
our national security will be at risk, and we will lost the freedoms Americans
take for granted.”
-- Tom Brokaw
Why does the school funding model in Illinois need to change and what is SB16?
Everyone Deserves a Great Education
Why change how
Illinois schools
are funded?
Why does the school funding model in Illinois need to change and what is SB16?
Everyone Deserves a Great Education
Public school districts found themselves in a perfect storm of
unprecedented revenue shortfalls from the two primary sources
used by states to fund public education: state and local revenue.
National School Report Card – January 2014
Available State Aid not changing
Why does the school funding model in Illinois need to change and what is SB16?
Everyone Deserves a Great Education
Revenue Source
School Revenue Sources
65% of revenue generated thru property
tax and other local funding.
27% of revenue is received thru General
State Aid and Low Income grants from
the state.
8%
Fed
27%
State
65%
Local
8% of revenue is received thru Federal Aid.
Why does the school funding model in Illinois need to change and what is SB16?
Everyone Deserves a Great Education
State Funding
Distribution
The educational opportunity
available to a child in Illinois is
at least partially determined
by which school district they
live in.
Source: Is school funding fair? - National Report Card 2014
Why does the school funding model in Illinois need to change and what is SB16?
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State Share of
Funding Education
The State’s financial crisis is
expected to continue to grow
and revenue likely will not grow
significantly for several years.
Source: Is school funding fair? - National Report Card 2010
Why does the school funding model in Illinois need to change and what is SB16?
Everyone Deserves a Great Education
Impact on School District’s Budgets
82%
Schools will begin to go either financially or
academically bankrupt.
 60% of schools submitted deficit budgets in FY 2014 (18% in 2011)
Landscape (political and economic) will make it
difficult to raise additional tax Revenues.
40%
FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14
% of School Districts
with Balanced Budgets
An analysis of SB 16 and the impacts to School Districts throughout the State.
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What is SB16?
Why does the school funding model in Illinois need to change and what is SB16?
Everyone Deserves a Great Education
SR 431 (Manar) created the Education Funding Advisory Committee. The purpose
of the Advisory Committee is to propose a state education funding system that
provides adequate, equitable, transparent, and accountable distribution of funds
to school districts that will prepare students for achievement and success after
high school.
The Advisory Committee is required to consider the following:
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the number of students in a school and school district and the level of need;
a school district’s ability to provide local resources;
transparency and accountability; revenue predictability;
the long-term implications and outcomes of the funding system.
Why does the school funding model in Illinois need to change and what is SB16?
Everyone Deserves a Great Education
Options to address the short fall of revenues to fund education
 Increase the portion of the State’s current budget that is spent on education.
 Modify the State’s revenue (taxes) to provide property tax relief while increasing and stabilizing
funding to education.
 Increase local revenue (taxes) to provide additional funds.
 SB16 Reallocates State aid between School Districts.
 Creates a single needs based weighted formula to determine a School’s districts budget
 Provides State Aid to Districts based on the community’s ability to meet their District’s need
 Provides a three year phased implementation for District’s to make cuts as needed
An analysis of SB 16 and the impacts to School Districts throughout the State.