Illinois Education Superintendent Tony Sanders is cautioning school officials not to expect big funding increases next year.
Capitol News Illinois reports Sanders told the State Board of Education Wednesday there will be a lot of competition for increased funding while state revenues are expected to remain flat.
K-12 education spending is expected to total just over 11 billion dollars this year, or about one-fifth of the entire state General Revenue Fund budget.
Sanders will present an official budget plan to the board at its January meeting.
That plan will be delivered to Governor J-B Pritzker who will present his overall state budget to the legislature in February.
