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re: Public School Funding Question
Posted on 10/22/25 at 10:06 am to ElShugh84
Posted on 10/22/25 at 10:06 am to ElShugh84
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The only way this state gets better is to pull people out of poverty, most tried and true way to do that is through education and I would hope even private school parents would see that improving public school outcomes helps everyone.
EBR has been in a constant state of decline yet continue asking for more money.
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Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:19 am to justinking042
The cash should follow the kid like the G I Bill, with the parents or guardians choosing the school.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 11:53 am to UptownJoeBrown
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My mother was a public school teacher in the early 70s. They were animals then and animals now. Nothing has changed for the better in 50+ years and it won’t get better in the next 50 years. The culture is crap and the parents don’t care.
I actually consider it child abuse to send your kid to a public school in BR not withstanding a couple of the magnet schools and even then those are not what they used to be.
Tighten your belt and send your kids to private school if you care even just a little bit about their future. You don’t need to eat out as much or have season LSU tickets. You will survive.
Who is "they?" Pretty broad strokes there bud.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 2:17 pm to TigerAllNightLong
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Why does this involve taking my money at gun point? I’ll never understand.
The same reason all taxes involve taking your money at gun point: you would never give it willingly.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 5:48 pm to Coach72
The cafeteria workers don't force that, the Federal School Lunch program guidelines do.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 8:06 pm to whoa
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EBR has been in a constant state of decline yet continue asking for more money.
EBR is probably the worst large system in the state. Their dysfunction is not a statewide phenomenon.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 9:15 pm to BabyTac
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BabyTac
Dude you shite on Louisiana constantly. Back the frick off. Enjoy Texas. Give it a rest.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 10:51 pm to justinking042
The sad fact is the USA has one of the highest amounts per student averages for public school funding and yet we are constantly dropping in the ranks of educational quality and outcomes.
Education is one of the easiest ways to prove that money doesn't always solve problems, especially if they are cultural.
Education is one of the easiest ways to prove that money doesn't always solve problems, especially if they are cultural.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 9:32 am to hansenthered1
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The sad fact is the USA has one of the highest amounts per student averages for public school funding and yet we are constantly dropping in the ranks of educational quality and outcomes.
That is simply not true: LINK
Posted on 10/23/25 at 10:19 am to Harry Caray
Funding is not the problem. More funding helps, of course, but you can spend an awful lot of money on the problem without fixing it. You have a lot of educational leaders that don't necessarily know/understand how to fix learning gaps in a systemic way. It's a very specific set of skills that are not fully understood. Policy and leadership can 1000% fix learning gaps but no every principal, district leader, or superintendent knows how to do this.
Brumley at the state luckily does but only so much can happen from state leadership. So much is on the District and school leader to actually effect change and so much of that has nothing to do with money.
Brumley at the state luckily does but only so much can happen from state leadership. So much is on the District and school leader to actually effect change and so much of that has nothing to do with money.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 2:52 pm to Harry Caray
I'm talking national average over time.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 2:54 pm to justinking042
They could spend 10 times the money and the outcome would be the same.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 2:59 pm to rs_la
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Nope. Schools receive public funding based on the number of students enrolled. They don't get a surplus from a lower enrollment, they get less funding.
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That “public funding” is state funding. They get 100% of the property tax collected for that school district - no matter what the enrollment is.
Yep. Top is incorrect, bottom is correct, with the caveat that state funding also includes federal funding.
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