High School Budget Research Paper

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Illinois falling budget
With the way Illinois government has been treating its citizens it has shown how poor the budget has become. For years now it has been falling with little to no help from the government. The citizens of Illinois are the ones who are hurting the most because of this. The government as a whole has cut so many things that Illinois tax payers can’t afford to do anything that I way so many people believe that if people move out of Illinois the budget in other states will be better. Illinois budget maybe in the whole but there are many solutions to dig it back out. The reason the budget issue started was because according to a states attorney this is why in an article by Jim Nowlan who quoted Vanmeter “Illinois is often used as the poster child for how not to run a state.
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That just one of the crazy ideas the government has had. To go further with the cutting of school it will be explained. Illinois planned to cut the small school in Illinois that don’t alreasdy get enough funding as is. The best and obvious solution would be to take from the bigger school who get plenty of funding and just divide it up between schools. They could even go as far as combining counties to have one big school to help save money. But I don’t understand where it seems smart to cut educate when we could cut funding to prisons. I say that because most people deserve to be in there they get plenty of care more than some schools it seems. It just seems dumb to punish the kids and hard working adults but to in way help the prisoners. Illinois prison systems is one of the best accourding to some source from Springfield. Even though the prisons are crowded much like the schools the inmates are taken care of that’s why it would be easy to cut funding for the m and give it back to the workers or the prison and the students in the

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