A bill in Springfield would add more burdensome mandates on Illinois schools.

That's according to Clinton Schools Superintendent Curt Nettles who is tracking a bill that would increase pay for support staff in Illinois schools.

According to Nettles, support staff is anyone that is not a teacher or an administrator. He points out that bumping pay for those individuals would force the district to increase other staffers because of their seniority.

While Clinton Schools might be able to absorb the mandate because of its financial footing, his concern would be other districts that are not in as good of a financial position.

Local control has been a big sticking point for Nettles and other administrators in Illinois in recent years for obvious reasons. He has vowed in the past to continue to fight for more local control after years of the State of Illinois coming in with heavy-handed mandates.