Essay On Oklahoma's Education Budget

Our political leaders struggle to understand the impact they have on the policies they put into place to improve public education. We see mandates that are unfunded and have a significant impact on a school district’s budget. Special education continues to be an area rich with policy and yet additional dollars are not included in the decisions made for implementation. Title one funding is an area that falls into a blurry area of policy for school districts. In our district, we have policies for fiscal responsibility in our spending procedures and yearly audits to be sure we are spending our money in a proper way.

Continued funding of CTE classes in community college and adding money to the CSUs to increase openings. They do not want the emergency maintenance funding to come from Prop 39, but from

I can personally say that I have had teachers put in so much extra time to help me, because I was struggling in class. They aren’t getting paid for the extra time they put in; they just do it because they care about the future of their students. If we didn’t have teachers who care for the future of young kids then Oklahoma’s education system would be no existent, we would be dead last and on the brink of having the worst economy in the United States. I have grown up and lived in Norman Oklahoma my whole life and I don’t want to see our education system crumble into nothing or just barely hang on and struggle like we have been for a long time now. I want to see our education system start to work its way to the top and see the teachers who have taught me since I was in Kindergarten finally get paid the salary they deserve. I have traveled all over and have been to more than 30 states and multiple countries and I can honestly say that Oklahoma has some of the most caring, hardworking, genuine, give the shirt off their own back kind of people. So we need to start acting like it and come together as a community and raise the salaries of the people who are some of the most compassionate and caring humans around and that’s our teachers. Some people would say that they are the backbone of our community because they are the ones grooming the kids who will someday run the community and

This could cut the local tax rate – in most school districts now around $1.50 per $100 of property value for maintenance and operations (M&O) – to roughly 50 cents! The maximum M&O tax rate – also now generally capped at $1.50 – must be reduced by the same percentage as total M&O taxes. If the income tax cut the property tax rate by 65%, then it would also cut the tax cap by 65%. After the cap was cut, only the voters in a school district could increase their district’s maximum tax rate. The Bullock Amendment then provides that the remaining one-third of income tax revenue could be spent, but only on education. State income tax payments are deductible from taxable income in calculating federal income taxes. Deductibility shifts part of the cost of public education to the federal government. The above chart shows that, although the tax would have raised $16.4 billion in 2004, the net cost to Texas taxpayers would have been only $3.9 billion. Lower property taxes would have returned most of the new revenue ($10.9 billion) to taxpayers. Uncle Sam would have picked up 10% of the total cost of the income tax ($1.6 billion) through higher deductions on federal tax

To get to this point, Massachusetts had to completely change its educational reform. To achieve a better outcome for the system, school investment had to be doubled. The current total expenditure in Arizona’s K-12 education is clearly not enough. If a real progress wants to be made, a larger amount of funding should be invested. Increasing the amount invested in Arizona’s K-12 education will allow the state government to

Collections were $61 million below expectations in July, August and September (combined total). Following that, the total receipts were $15 million, or almost 3 percent, below expectations in October, according to the Kansas Department of Revenue. Added up, in the first four months of the fiscal year starting in July, Kansas is now roughly $76 million under revenue expectations. The state broke out of an eight-month-long streak of missed estimates in November. But December’s lower-than-expected receipts (under $11 million) ruined hopes of the November figures (up $8 million) in which we thought was the start of a new, positive trend. Ever since 2013, the tax cuts have fallen short of creating the surge of new dollars that Brownback once boldly predicted would almost immediately flow to the state. Also, the state has been among the worst in the nation in recently in creating new nonfarm jobs, again, the opposite of what Brownback had said would happen after the tax cuts were implemented. On July 1, the statewide sales tax jumped from 6.15 percent to 6.5 percent. “The fact that sales tax revenue was below estimates, even after Republicans passed a massive sales tax increase, is an indication of just how much Kansas families are struggling under the Brownback tax plan,” said House Minority Leader Tom Burroughs, D-Kansas City. “A tax plan that is overly dependent upon a sales tax is neither

Some of the concerns that ultimately issued Proposition 51 to be put into the ballot extends to a variety of issues between the state and more local levels. The first issue that came to many legislator’s attention was how local agency spending on schools were affecting the needs of students based on money that was being spent prior to 2016. Andrew Ujifusa’s article “California Rolls Toward Implementation on Overhauled K-12 Funding Formula” points out

The Texas AFT wants to influence the legislator because the school districts have been left to try to make up for inadequate state aid by raising local tax rates, even as the state has continued to make it much harder for them to accomplish this. Basically, all they want to do is handle the budget crisis in the school districts of Texas. To analyze the successes and failures of Texas AFT in influencing legislation is short and sweet; school systems are still under budgeted and local taxes are still being raised to help the schools. The only break educators have received was in 2006 with “surplus” dollars tax swap for which the bill is now belatedly coming due.

Hederman Jr. executive vice president at The Buckeye Institute said "There are two main strategies that Ohio should employ to attract business and shake off the low ranking," Hederman said. "First, Ohio needs to get rid of business tax expenditures. These hurt businesses and job growth and discourage investment. Second, Ohio should focus on broadening the tax base and lowering tax rates. Implementing these two strategies, and others we have outlined in our Tax Reform Principles for Ohio, will improve our tax climate and will make Ohio an economic engine in the Midwest." (Hederman) Hederman and others have created this Tax Reform Principles for Ohio to try and better the Buckeye state, yet it's barely getting any attention. To instill change it's important to inform the public about the issue and what to

Most, if not all, politicians run stating "I am for education." However, that slogan can be translated to "I will increase spending on education to convince the voters I care about the students." America spends more money on education than any other country. This educational system has become better and stronger funded and it has become much more diverse; yet, most students do not identify that the schools fit them. The dropout rate is increasing despite higher funding. Each individual student that drops out has their own reason for doing so. Those reasons vary

Proposition 30, formally known as "Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012” would add Section 36 to Article XIII of the California Constitution. Proposition 30 increases personal income taxes for seven years for California residents with an annual income over $250,000 and sales taxes by .25 % for four years. This tax increase is placed on California 's top 5% of taxpayers and is estimated to generate average revenues of $6 billion dollars a year for California. 3 These revenues generated will be used to fund public schools, more specifically 89% of these temporary tax revenues will help fund K-12 schools and 11% of these revenues will help fund community colleges. These funds are prohibited to be used by schools for administrative cost purposes, however, local school governing boards are given the freedom to decide how they should best allocate these new resources. This measure would also include provisions of the recent “realignment” which would ensure counties continue to receive funding for programs such as public safety, health and social services. 3 With the rising costs of education and decrease in state funding for public schools, it is beneficial to vote in favor of Proposition 30 to better educate our future and help fund initiatives such as reducing class sizes, buying new textbooks and hiring more

Clark thanked Scott Anderson for his patience with the process and Board member Jewett for his experience and wisdom. Ms. Clark reviewed the committee members, and why we need a parcel tax. She reviewed the background and the history of the parcel tax and the Measure C ballot language, noting that the parcel tax is not to be used to cover administrator salaries. Measure C specifies there must be an oversight committee whose responsibility is to monitor the expenditures of the parcel tax. An accountability model was developed to assure that the parcel tax funds are used appropriately. This year they are transitioning to a new model in which PTOC can review the District’s financial reports through the fiscal year to ensure that identified expenditures are consistent with the parcel tax ballot language. The parcel tax will fund 73.8 FTE classroom teachers (salaries and benefits). The PTOC concludes that after analyzing all information, the parcel tax funds were spent in accordance with Measure C for the 14-15 administrative year and that no administrative salaries were

The worse thing to tdo is to take away money from our schools, I mean we are the future of this country and if you try to take away assignments and tests that means we could lose our education. The teacher did a good job showing that if you really needed money then he would help. However cutting off the schools budget by 30% is not a vaible option, because we need paper, we need money to keep our classrooms running and cant have teachers paying out of their own pockets for classroom supplies when the districe cannot help supply us. Our states need to find a way to give the schools more money and if they cannot then they will jepradise the future of this

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a budget which included a $2.9 billion fund increase for schools. However Schwarzenegger broke his promise and took the $2 billion from Education funds just to help him avoid raising taxes. ¡§The initial proposal provided more money for public schools than the previous year, the governor said. But the education community maintains the governor promised public schools some $2 billion more.¡¨# Schools are already having a hard time with money and with Governor Schwarznegger¡¦s poor choices in politics definitely caused much rage and anger from Schools all around. Education is important and his decision making towards his proposal wasn¡¥t helpful it all and may put Education in danger. Meaning students

This week the media was full of stories about the outrage regarding the severe cuts California is undergoing in the area of public education funding. California currently ranks 49th out of the 50 states in public school performance K-12. Most people are understandably perplexed about how we will improve school performance and close the achievement gap if we keep cutting the funding? A bit of a chicken and egg dilemma.