Washington Elementary District Budget Override
Posted on | November 1, 2012 | 2 Comments
It seems we get this question during every election cycle – and it passes every time. Apparently no one involved with this school district bothers with math.
Yet another of those tug-at-your-heartstrings, appeal to your better, charitable, caring nature – for the children. However, it doesn’t seem to matter how much money we give them, they always need more. Very little of it actually makes it to the classroom, but the administrators and bureaucrats are very well paid. Why they deserve that pay when our public schools continue to lag escapes me. Why it is that they always need more money but can’t explain how such funds will be used to improve educational results escapes me, as well.
Why people continue to vote for these budget overrides confounds me.
I’ve said it before
If the state legislature wants to improve our schools and reduce the financial burden, lets allow for more choice, more private school options – maybe even bring in a for-profit organization to revamp our pathetic, failing system.
Just don’t stick your hands back in my pocket for more good money to throw after the bad.
NO…no no no.
- A “yes” vote shall authorize the Washington Elementary School District Governing Board to adopt a budget which includes an amount that exceeds the District’s capital outlay revenue limit by $7,800,000.
- A “no” vote shall not authorize the Washington Elementary School District Governing Board to adopt a budget which includes an amount that exceeds its capital outlay revenue limit.
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November 6th, 2012 @ 12:24 pm
So they do give an overview of how they’re going to spend the money. It’s all publicly available here:
http://www.maricopa.gov/schools/webcontent/docs/006_Washington_67.pdf
Over 95 percent of the monies generated will be designated for student, classroom and school technology, and for the wireless and network infrastructure upgrades required to make that technology functional.
Arizona Revised Statutes stipulate the formulas according to which the State is to allocate three types of capital funds to public school districts: Students FIRST Building Renewal Capital, Soft Capital and Unrestricted Capital; however, between fiscal years 2008 and 2013, the District will have received less than half of its total capital allocation from the State, including less than five percent of its Students FIRST Building Renewal Capital allocation. Because WESD will have not received over $55,000,000 of allocated money from the State during this six-year period, funding is not available to replace six- to eleven-year-old computers and other technology components that can no longer meet instructional or operational needs in the District. After having been recommended by a task force of WESD parents, community members, local business owners and staff, the Capital Outlay Budget Override has been called in response to the need to fund technology for students.
The proposed capital override monies ($7,800,000) are expected to fund the following programs in the first year:
• Acquisition of Classroom Technology for Students
• School-wide Hardware and Software Improvements
• Network Infrastructure Improvements
[edited by Vox only to correct some formatting, character recognition errors. I left the content intact]
September 23rd, 2013 @ 3:35 pm
What happened to the 4 billion generated by the sales tax on food? I’ll tell you, it was wasted on administration raises and covered parking and school facelifts. I saw nothing made it to the classroom, or teachers. The one thing about that waste of revenue was that at least everyone living in Arizona participated in contributing, because it came from a sales tax. Every apartment dweller (and citizen from other districts, using a variance to enable their kids into a better school), had to pay.
However, it wasn’t enough, no that the penny tax on food is gone, once again homeowners are being raped by school bonds, which will push property taxes farther into the absurd range. Since I bought my house, in 1996, my taxes are five times higher. The majority of the assessment was due to school bonds and support of the educational institutions. Every year teachers and administrators push for raising taxes in the name of our poor needy education system. My kids have gone to public school from kindergarten through 8th grade, and will be attending public high school. I would like to say I have seen improvements in the classroom, but the money goes to building a new district building which is so poorly designed that you cannot even hear the children give a district speech in the designated room.
Now you might say I have no qualifications to rant about this topic, well I happen to have taught high school for over six years in Phoenix and I see the needs and the waste. The bottom line is that the money will be pissed away, and the kids lose and the middle class homeowners lose. Of course anyone in an apartment will vote for it because they don’t feel the pain. And do not even argue that their rents increase in a commensurate fashion, comparatively to the property owner.
Shame on you all. Whether this passes this year or doesn’t, you and the district will have your hands out next year again, and the year after. It will never be enough. It is time to stop!!!!!
All you are doing is pushing people out of the great neighborhoods we grew up in, leaving the properties available only for the wealthy.