Last week, the Governor unveiled his budget propsal to the General Assembly. The following is the newspaper summary of the main education related portion:
Beshear would not cut the K-12 schools’ main funding formula, but because there is no new money and more students, spending per student will go down from the planned $3,903 in 2012 to $3,833 in 2013 and $3,827 in 2014. That doesn’t count a proposed 4.5 percent cut in 2013 to other educational services, such as family resource centers, extended school services, professional development and technology
The current two year budget cycle our district has been cut well over $150,000 which is larger amount than the contingency we are mandated to maintain. The proposal appears to ensure we will lose that much or more in the coming two years coupled with the large jumps in the retirement payroll tax added by the General Assembly. KDE’s NCLB waiver requests includes taking taking districts’ Title II allocation which we use to hire a teacher. They did say next year we get to keep our allocation.
During this same time period we are undergoing as large an instructional reform or larger than KERA in 1990. It’s good to be a teacher.
