With the state forced to come to grips with a $3.7 billion budget deficit everyone knows cuts are coming to the K-12 education, the single biggest item in the state’s general fund budget. The how and where of budget cuts is just as important as their size. Unfortunately, the conventional wisdom is to weather the economic storm [...]
NC school funding formulas; changes ahead.
The Joint Legislative Committee on Public School Funding Formulas has been meeting for three years. Yesterday consultants released recommendations to strengthen North Carolina’s School Funding System. The consultant’s presentation and the consultant’s report can be found here and here. Was it worth the wait? Hard to tell. The report is a slog through the convoluted world of [...]
NC charter schools: changes coming?
How good is North Carolina’s charter school law? Not very. That according to the Center for Education Reform which gives the Tar Heel state a “D” in a new report on charter schools laws. The state’s cap on the number of charter schools (100) and funding inequities between charter schools and traditional public schools help to explain the [...]
School Funding Report; what’s new?
Yesterday the left-leaning NC Justice Center published a report titled: North Carolina’s Public School Funding System: Underfunded, Unclear and Unfair. You needn’t read past the title to get the message. The crusade for unabashed liberalism continues; same old template, same old solutions. One the plus side, there was one thing we could agree on: it’s too hard [...]
Budget, smudget. What you really need to know.
Trying to understand government spending is a mind-numbing exercise. The proposed operating budget for the Wake County Public Schools (WCPSS) for next year will likely be in the neighborhood of $1.2 billion. How has the budget for WCPSS grown and where is all that money going are two questions I address in “The district’s dollars” which appears [...]
