Financial Leadership, Public School Style - with Tamara Mitchell

We talk school finance with Tamara Mitchell, Assistant Superintendent for Business & Financial Services for the Joliet, IL School District 86. She talks where public money for schools comes from and where it goes; the good and the bad of being state funded versus property tax funded; how Joliet School District 86 won 70% approval for a referendum on last year’s ballot; and how they were impacted by the influx of federal funding during COVID. In Ripped from the Headlines, we continue the discussion about COVID funding talking about the incoming fiscal cliff for school districts.