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Clinton Schools Still Awaiting Mandated Services Payments From State of Illinois

Area schools may be getting their checks that are largely known at 'general state aid' payments, but schools across the state are still awaiting their payments for services like transportation and special education.
 
Superintendent of Clinton Schools, Curt Nettles, indicates the payments are coming in regularly from the funds approved as a part of the education budget last year, but payments for things like transportation and special education are behind, by almost a half-million dollars in Clinton.
 
 
According to Nettles, the school is getting payments but they are part of last year's budget though lawmakers are advertising the payments as payments made this year. He points out, Clinton schools are paying roughly 80-percent of the transportation and special education costs.
 
 
 
Another budget process is right around the corner and Nettles believes re-election is going to be a focus for lawmakers and says in the process, almost every sector of the state loses in the ongoing chess match.
 
 
The budget process will likely not come into the spotlight until the Governor's budget address in February. The State of Illinois went two years without a budget the first two year's of Rauner's administration. 

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