Indiana Budget Review (Nuvo, 2/23/05)

[hippiechick]

Ok, WTF ??? :wtf: How did I miss this ??

http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2005/02/23/cutting_indianas_budget.html

The 10 districts with the highest minority population will lose nearly $26 million in state funding, while the 10 wealthiest districts will see an increase of $21.5 million.

Cutting Indiana’s budget
Urban students to pay the price
Laura McPhee

Faced with a huge state deficit, Indiana’s House Republicans rejected Gov. Mitch Daniels’ call for a one-year temporary 1 percent tax increase on Hoosiers earning $100,000 or more, deciding, instead, to cut school funding and change the funding formula for public schools. Should the plan pass, the biggest losers will be students in already struggling urban school districts.

The $23 billion budget, well on its way to the governor’s desk, calls for an overall decrease in the funding of the state’s public schools, from an average of $6,006 per student to $5,987. But that decrease will not be felt equally.

Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee took advantage of their majority status to rewrite the school funding formula in Indiana, establishing a formula that allows state dollars to move to districts with increased enrollment.

Just days before the new budget passed the committee, the Indiana University Center for Evaluation and Education Policy released its report “Demystifying School Funding in Indiana,” warning that proposed changes in the state funding formula would have significant advantages for some students and significant disadvantages for others.

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[Voltaire]

1. Its the American Way baby, Its THE AMERICAN WAY

That's the reality of America. And I have known that every single day of my African American life. Same as it ever was.