District Takes Over Athletic Trainer Expense from State

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The state of Illinois has been without a comprehensive budget for about two years, and it’s starting to cause problems for some public high schools that are taking it upon themselves to pay for athletic trainers if the state won’t.

In May, two Springfield, Ill.-area, hospitals announced that they’d stop providing athletic trainers to nine high schools at the end of the academic year, in part because the state owes millions of dollars in bills to help cover their service.

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