Broadly speaking, schools are funded from 3 sources.
1. The state - Through your property taxes; by far the biggest chunk.
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-70%.
2. Feds - Urban schools get significantly more federal money in large
part due to larger numbers of children at risk.
3. Excess levy referendum - This is money that the Districts levy over
and above what they get from the feds and the state. Capped by law and
subject to voter approval. Comes from property taxes. In Burnsville our
levy limit is about $1000 per child.
Now, the above sources provide monies for operating expenses. Bricks and
mortar and other capital projects are funded in a different way. But to
answer your question, city or county governments do not have anything to
do with funding or overseeing the schools.
Duke Powell
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>
> I guess I'm lost. If the city does not fund schools, according to Ms.
> Collier, who does? I seriously want to know how it breaks down. Does the
> state or county fund public schools? If so, than why aren't urban schools as
> lavish as the suburban schools.
>
> Oh, and by the way, there is absolutely nothing admirable about a corporation
> that can't draw it's employees by offering a decent living wage, or that uses
> public tax dollars to increase it's profit margin. Especially when that same
> corporation pays its CEO an annual salary of tens of millions of dollars. A
> company that knows it has a city's leaders in its pocket to cover building
> expenses so it can use the saved dollars for publicity and tax write offs is
> anything but admirable. In fact, such a company is despicable.
>
> wade russell
> longfellow
