"The general fund, and for some programs grant funds, are what pay salaries which are usually the largest annual expense a district has. So if you increase staff to educate and support a student population which has grown over time(also mandated, and you factor in state mandated salary tables(Which are lowest in the area states, and maybe near the bottom of the nation, just don't have exact figures right now), then cut the funding that pays for those salaries to below what it was 5 years prior (because the legislature won't vote to increase or fund the needed deficit) you place a district in distress.
Then you lose the more experienced and well trained teachers to other states, thus lowering the quality of education here, even further.
In a state where we already have one of the lowest expenditures of dollars for students yet have to meet a national college and career ready graduation expectation this is a serious issue.
Very True.
Then you lose the more experienced and well trained teachers to other states, thus lowering the quality of education here, even further.
In a state where we already have one of the lowest expenditures of dollars for students yet have to meet a national college and career ready graduation expectation this is a serious issue.
Very True.