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Waverly Community Unit School District # 6 Vision:

To provide quality educational opportunities for all students in a high performing Institution, dedicated to life-long learning in a safe and caring environment.

 

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Superintendent’s Corner by Dr. Rust

FISCAL YEAR 2014 BUDGET

In this corner of the school’s website, I will provide you with current information about the budget and the fiscal state of our school district.  I begin this article with a quote from the Alliance Legislative Report.

“Much work needs to be done on crafting the FY 2014 state budget. Since the Governor unveiled his spending priorities last month, House and Senate appropriations committees have met to listen to testimony from interested stakeholders but have not taken any specific action on the Governor’s proposals.

Governor Quinn’s budget plan would pare another $300 million from the K-12 education budget with half coming out of the General State Aid (GSA) line item and the other half taken out of the transportation reimbursement funding stream. Given this scenario, the GSA being paid to local school districts would be prorated at 82% resulting in an effective foundation level of $5,452 per pupil.” (Alliance Legislative Report)

Given this information, the Waverly School District may lose as much as $97,000.00 next year in General State Aid alone.  General State Aid is the money that schools receive from the State of Illinois to supplement the amount of local money a school district collects.  These state funds augment district dollars up to the foundation level of $6119 per student.  With this proposed decrease in General State Aid, our school district will have to provide education to our students with only $5,452 per student.  This is a 10.9% decrease.   Currently we are operating in the black with some savings.  As the legislature continues to work on a state budget, our school district continues to adjust our budget accordingly.  If you have questions about the fiscal condition of our school district, please call me at 435-8121.