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Oswego District 308 looks at staffing cuts because of $8 million loss in state funding · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego District three hundred and eight looks at staffing cuts
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  Speaker 1: because of eight million dollar loss in state funding. Written
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  Speaker 1: by Eric Schlkoff a flip. This article is being read
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  Speaker 1: by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Oswego
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  Speaker 1: School District three hundred and eight said it is losing
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  Speaker 1: eight million dollars in state funding and therefore the district
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  Speaker 1: will have to make across the board staffing cuts. The
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  Speaker 1: district state funding has been cut to approximately one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and six point one million dollars from one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fourteen point one million dollars. The reason for the decrease
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  Speaker 1: in funding is because the district has been moved from
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  Speaker 1: Tier one to Tier two inches the state's evidence based
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  Speaker 1: funding system. Under the system, the funds flow first to
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  Speaker 1: the school districts that need them the most. That was
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  Speaker 1: significant for US District three hundred and eight Chief financial
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  Speaker 1: officer in Chief School Business Official Raphael Obafemi said, we
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  Speaker 1: were just building our fun balance up in the last
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  Speaker 1: couple years. The number of employees that will be cut
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  Speaker 1: is not yet known. We're still working on it. Obafemi said.
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  Speaker 1: The budget is not finalized. We will know that when
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  Speaker 1: we send a preliminary budget to the board in August.
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  Speaker 1: August is when we will find out how much we're
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  Speaker 1: getting from the state again, whether we're Tier two or
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  Speaker 1: we go back to Tier one. Several positions at the
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  Speaker 1: district administration center, both in leadership and support staff, are
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  Speaker 1: being cut, along with interventionist positions originally funded by federal
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  Speaker 1: esser slash COVID relief dollars. Officials said every elementary building
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  Speaker 1: will retain at least one full time staff member dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to student interventions. District officials said a student interventionist is
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  Speaker 1: an educator who provides targeted academic or behavioral support to
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  Speaker 1: at risk students. Illinois uses a four tier system to
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  Speaker 1: prioritize funding. Tier one districts, which have the lowest funding adequacy,
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  Speaker 1: receive the largest increases in state funding. Shifting to Tier
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  Speaker 1: two means a district is deemed less in need than
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  Speaker 1: other districts, influencing the percentage of new state aid it
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  Speaker 1: receives as equalized to cessed valuation increases. In general, districts
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  Speaker 1: move closer to adequate funding, according to the Illinois State
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  Speaker 1: Board of Education. That also is true when enrollment decreases
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  Speaker 1: in the last few years, the value of property here
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  Speaker 1: has gone up. Obafemi said, the higher your tier, the
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  Speaker 1: less money you get from the state. The district covers
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  Speaker 1: about sixty eight square miles, with students not only in
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  Speaker 1: us we Go, but also Aurora, Joliette, Montgomery, Plainfield, and Yorkville.
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  Speaker 1: The district's enrollment has decreased in the last seven years,
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  Speaker 1: from seventeen thousand, three hundred and eighty four students in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen minus eighteen school year to sixteen thousand,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty students in the twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: AMNUS twenty four school year, according to a recent district
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  Speaker 1: enrollment analysis. District three h eight Superintendent ANDELP. Keilgaddy hopes
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  Speaker 1: the cuts will not impact the classroom. Ultimately, we want
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  Speaker 1: to keep everything as far away as possible from really
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  Speaker 1: hurting the quality of our classrooms, he said,