Real talk on school funding

Rob Rapheal
Guest Columnist
I’ve heard many people say that school funding is so complicated that it is almost impossible to understand. True, but most of the money that pays for our schools comes from the state budget in what’s called per-pupil funding. This means that for each student, a district is given a fixed dollar amount. The other funding sources, which can include federal money, local levies and compensatory (funding tied to specific needs), are important, but I want to talk about per pupil funding because it is the most important to districts like ours.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Every two years, the House, Senate and governor set the amount of the per-pupil funding, and over the last 15 years, the amount that the state has allocated to schools has not kept up with inflation. This means that school districts have been cutting the amount going into the classroom or relying on passing local levies to

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