Citrus County School Budget Case Study

When local property taxes were the primary source of school funding, districts were financially stable and were able to allocate funds for appropriate spendings. With the limitations set on property taxes, school budgets became dependent on the state’s fluctuating economy and tax collections. Fortunately, in 1988, Proposition 98 was passed, which set a minimum base funding for public schools. This proposition guaranteed funding that would grow each year with the changing economy along with student enrollment. This funding, though managed by the state was a combination of state General Fund and local property tax revenues.

Since last spring, Philadelphia school district leaders have been sounding the alarm about this year’s fiscal budget. Even after months of discussions and headlines, schools have opened with fewer resources than last year. On March 28th the School Reform Commission approved a lump sum budget which showed a need for an additional $220 million in revenue in order to provide schools with same resources as the “wholly insufficient” 2013-14 school year (McCorry). There will be many inadequate funding impacts on the quality of the education. Classroom resources would be stripped to untenable levels. The district would reduce as much as $2.2 million funding to the districts’ multiple pathways to graduation program which affects estimated 300 students. Another $1.5 million could be reduced from the elimination of preparation and professional development time for teachers at the district’s high needs promise academies. The district’s building maintenance budget could have reduction in amount of $9.6 million. Schools will be cleaned less frequently as a result. Building maintenance will also be curtailed as a result. District’s school police budget could also have reduction in amount of $2.4 million. School police officer vacancies will be unfilled, leaving an additional 27 elementary schools to share an officer.

The Ann Arbor School District is facing about a $20 million shortfall over this year and next year school budget. The district currently spends about $7.2 million on transportation and is looking at outsourcing its bussing as part of an effort to deal with its budget shortfall. The districts goals are to try to stay away from making cuts to instruction, and cutting teachers. More Michigan public school districts contracted out in 2009 for at least one of the three main support services –food, custodial or transportation- according to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s annual privatization survey. The school districts are not mandated to provide transportation services, and some districts have stopped providing transportation completely to save on cost. The estimated per-pupil savings estimates from transportation privatization are significant as the state Legislature discusses reducing the state-aid foundation grant per pupil.

Charter schools in North Carolina do not receive any funding from the lottery, while public schools do. Teachers complain about how they do not get paid enough. Voters go to the polls and vote for referendums that would hopefully be used for education purposes. Student population is growing, so should the money. Jessica Swencki, spokeswoman for Brunswick County Schools, said “It does not go very far. Brunswick County got about $800,000 last year which went to reroof one of the aging middle schools. The average price on one of those middle school roofing projects is around $1.2 million, so it really pays for about three-fourths of a roof, if you really think about the check that Brunswick County Schools actually receives.” Swencki also stated, “…Whenever the misperception is out there that these dollars are flowing into the public school system may or may not be using them to their fullest extent.” Teachers are starting to go on more strikes to protest for better pay. Schools never received half of the lottery money. Based on poverty concentration, North Carolina received a ‘B’, which was much better than the ‘Fs’ the state received during the early 2000s. North Carolina then cut funding for wealthy districts, but continued to fund for the poorer districts. Well, what followed the cut? Teachers went years without seeing a raise in their salaries. The amount of students in a classroom increased. Countless numbers of teacher assistants were cut from

Capital planning and budgeting is a very vital piece in the Public Budgeting System process. It is an essential implement in the financial management practice and is effective in both public and private organizations. It is the method which consists of the determination and the evaluation of the investments and the possible expenses by an organization. As explicate by Lee, Johnson, & Joyce (2008), capital budgets help in determining how much of each form of investment is needed, and it supports an organization in assessing the available revenue which includes loans is required to finance those investments (p. 475). Capital budgeting is a central part of the universal

Most people believe that students do better in well-funded schools and that public education should provide a level playing field for children. Nearly half of the funding for public schools in the United States, however, is provided through local taxes, generating large differences in funding between wealthy and impoverished communities (National Center for Education Statistics, 2000a). Efforts to reduce these disparities have provoked controversy and resistance. Public school funding the United States comes from federal, state, and local sources, but because nearly half of those funds come from local property taxes, the system generates large funding differences between wealthy and impoverished communities. Such differences exist among states, among school districts within each state, and even among schools within specific districts.

America’s education is failing, and serious reform is needed. The topic of education has been in the forefront over the last few decades. Many, including politicians have attempted to tackle what seemed to be a hopeless situation. With all the corruption and bureaucracy within the system, it is unlikely that this problem will be resolved anytime soon. However, there is hope amidst all this, and that is charter schools. Charter schools impact education by having passionate teachers who truly care for their students’ well-being, use up-to-date school methodology, are able to function with less bureaucracy, and have accountability that results in less corruption, and increased cost efficiency.

Bibb County School budget is designed and put to use to show the plans of the programs that are set for the year. The content of this paper is a general overview of the Bibb County school budget and what the main functions and the role it serves within the community. The key expenditures and how they determine public policy significances will also be identified. Among the other matters to be presented is if the budget of the Bibb County School has increased or decreased since last year, can the school still deliver service, are they still distributing resources sensibly and the recommendations for the future of the Bibb County Schools.

Throughout Indiana, school buildings have been sprouting up. With many high growth communities such as Fishers, Westfield, Avon and Crown Point, new and beautiful school facilities have been added to these flourishing locations. However, in many of these cases, if residents from these flourishing communities travel 20 miles away from their front doors, they would discover numerous schools in disrepair and meek at best. While home property taxes have were equalized throughout the state in year’s past, and funds “equally” distributed to districts; how can a school built in the 1960’s compared to the shiny

The article that I found which relates to this topic is titled “School Spending: Charters vs. Non-Charters.” and focuses on the 2013-2014 school

The school district would have be deficit spending based on the budget example, and would be required to use the district fund balance to balance the budget if no cuts to the general budget were done. If the district did not change any of their budget, they would have a negative fund balance after 11 months, and would end the fiscal year with a negative fund balance of nearly $77,000 (see Appendix A). It would be a difficult decision for a district to allow the fund balance to go into red, however without proper monitoring it could occur.

Budget cuts in schools cause turmoil and stress among the students and faculty. Drastic changes in the budgets have caused schools to negatively impact the people around them. With the lack of funding, schools are facing difficult decisions on what to do to stay within their budget. Supervision is facing much scrutiny on how to handle the lack of funding in their school districts. A solution needs to be made to improve the distribution of funding to our schools in order to keep them operating and thriving for our children to obtain their education. Budget cuts in schools have shown negative effects on employee positions, supplies, extracurricular activities.

In today’s economic environment even the wealthiest states and districts are having to cut funding for education, while districts which were already teetering on the edge are now in an even worse position. In some schools children have to face not having enough books, paper for copies, severe overcrowding,

Schools have a number of various sources. The primary sources are federal, state, and local funding. The majority of funding comes from state and local sources; whereas a small percent (usually 9-12%) comes from the federal level. The method by which schools receive funding is through the taxation process. At the state level, taxes are levied from taxpayers, both corporate and citizens via sales and income tax. At the local level, school funding comes from property taxes. Let’s explore the how the various sources of school funding. “According to the National Center for Education Statistics, state and local funding accounts for approximately 93 percent of education expenditures” (Woodruff, 2008, ¶ 2). Let’s examine these various sources of revenue and funding and different formulas for allocation along with their pros and cons.

Over the past few years, there are multiple bills and actions the government have suggested on the issue of charter schools transparency. While some fail, others are more successful. On a smaller and more local scale, under the Los Angeles Unified School District, a Board Resolution, “Keeping Parents Information: Charter Transparency” was passed that required charter school in that district to provide reports of the student performance and progress. However in 2014, California Assembly Bill 913 and in 2016, California Assembly Bill 709, two