Public School Funding Debates

Schools are underfunded see Texas as why they went to ISD. Go look in a Title I school and ask if it is underfunded, the answer is yes.

If they get the federal assistance wouldn’t they not be underfunded then?

Well, we mostly have morons making decisions about how to spend education dollars and defining what constitutes "education". These morons will always always always point to lack of funding or some other issue as the cause of problems for which they themselves are to blame.

We could educate public school students just as well, at least, while spending nowhere near the hundreds of billions we currently spend on public education, but the truth is that educating students is pretty low on the priority list for the system as a whole.

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Not necessarily. Think of the tax base that Title I schools are pulling from. The federal assistance does not cover all costs of operating a school. The Title I school I work in has had to take most of it's budget this year to upgrade to accommodate new building codes instead of supplies. Then you also have to the items such as PTO Booster Clubs, etc that provide a modicum of funding, which most Title I do not have.

Now if you go 25 miles to the east of me where Walmart Corp is that school district is overfunded because of reasons I listed above.

I can not speak about the stupidity of some school boards, like NOLA and Little Rock, but I can tell you that in smaller rural schools you have to rob Peter to pay Paul.

Yes, there are many school districts that are funded less than wealthier districts, but DC school district is one of the best funded districts in the nation, and it still graduates massive numbers of illiterates. Race is a much greater factor than income level in predicting student performance. Even upper income Blacks have a lower avg SAT than lower income Whites, aka, trailer trash. LINK

Nice way to take a cheap shot at a union. You know the union is not to blame it is the leadership of the union. My state is a right to work state and there is only one union of teachers it is in the capital.

I think The argument is how the money is distributed. The arguments I’ve seen is that richer school districts pump money into schools for rich kids in those rich school districts.

Idk if that holds up in Louisiana with our insanely high rate of private schooling

But honestly I don’t know enough about school budgets to even begin to really make a comment on this.

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You know the union is not to blame it is the leadership of the union

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Then its the union

We've proven time and time again that throwing money at a situation doesn't make it better in education. It's a huge talking point because they think one school has less than others. When the reality is they have the same, just one school has students/parents that care and the other doesn't. So over time one school starts running low on computers, books, etc while the other school appears to now have more.

So we are assuming a single classroom has approximately $200,000 in funding to maintain it for the year?

I think if they had to go through public schools and do a value analysis for every position and process it would be scary.