I once had a professor during my post graduate work that defined politics as, "competition for scarce resources."
Let the competition begin.
Read this first short link and you will see an advocate fight for resources for an urban school district.
Read this second link and you will see someone argue for the suburban growing schools.
Read this post and I will fight for Wawasee Schools.
Many of the suburban schools used to be ranked up near the top in the state rankings for dollars per pupil. But due to growing enrollment they have joined the schools in Kosciusko county at the bottom of the list, because their funding increases haven't risen as fast as their enrollment.
While they are all facing issues, schools like Wawasee may end with the worst end of the deal. We are now ranked about 275 out of 310 school districts. The state will be taking money away from us and sending it to the suburban schools. They will move up in the rankings and we will move further down.
Wawasee may end up as the poster child for a great anomaly. We are number one in the state rankings for property values per child and near the lowest in terms of money per pupil.
And...your school board has no control over it. It is the state legislature alone that controls the General Fund revenue.
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Sounds like the general public and administration needs to get busy contacting or state reps. Were is the mighty teachers union during this isuue.....no money no teachers! How can we contact the right people?
I believe school boards can play an effective role. after all it took a large amount of voters to put them in their positions so if the parents and voters are properly informed the board members can have a large following.
I believe school boards can play an effective role. after all it took a large amount of voters to put them in their positions so if the parents and voters are properly informed the board members can have a large following.
I believe school boards can play an effective role. after all it took a large amount of voters to put them in their positions so if the parents and voters are properly informed the board members can have a large following.
I wonder how many of the schools complaining about funding have minority contracting set asides or must pay union wage rules?
How can an organization complain about funding when it is willing to pay above market rates for items
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