May 17, 200719 yr Ace, as a Berea College alum, I now realize why we bump heads on issues. You were one, along with Transy, of the rich kids while I was one of those poor kids. :sssh:
May 17, 200719 yr Ace, as a Berea College alum, I now realize why we bump heads on issues. You were one, along with Transy, of the rich kids while I was one of those poor kids. :sssh: Not so fast my good friend . . . Berea was one of my options, but I THOUGHT I was going to go play basketball at Centre. What a disappointment when I got there and realized that not only was I not one of the better basketball players but I was not one of the smartest - that is why KERA is sooo important (to keep us on topic) and I was certainly one of the least wealthy. Centre took care of me though. You know what is so odd is that in many circles Centre is considered a very conservative college (see all the grads in the Fletcher admin) and Berea is rathre progressive. Ironic given SOME of our stances on issues
May 18, 200719 yr And Fred had it right. I still think that the state should determine the amount per student that is required to fund a solid basic education and the state should fund that amount entirely. If a school district can convince the taxpayers that the taxpayers should pay local taxes to provide a better than solid basic education, the amount of local taxes should not decrease the state dollars. All the SEEK formula does is divert some of the cost of providing public education from the state to the local taxpayers in the name of "fairness". Explain the fairness of the state sending big dollars per student to some districts and little dollars per student to other districts. If that's fair, then I look like the second picture that Guru posted of me in the General Discussion forum.:jump: I believe there is a base per pupil spending for each student. The state has a set amount of money as a baseline...then you take ADA with ADM and compute it with your property tax and you get your numbers. If you are above the state baseline, you get less money, if you are below you get more. You have to figure in who qulaifies for Title I monies, free-reduced lunch because it costs those district more to educate students. If Bassett was allowed to do what he wants with the raising of the 4%, we are then on the slippery slope prior to 1990. As for the state governement, I believe they are already one biennium behind regarding funding of schools.
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