Phila. School District Says It Needs Hundreds of Millions More Next Year

[Chuckt]

Phila. School District Says It Needs Hundreds of Millions More Next Year

The district is already counting on City Council to provide $120 million more for next year by extending the one-percent city sales tax hike (see related story). But that’s far from a done deal.

Phila. School District Says It Needs Hundreds of Millions More Next Year « CBS Philly

The $2.5 billion plan for the year beginning in July calls for the district serving the nation’s fifth-most populous city to fire 1,000 employees unless it receives $216 million to maintain programs, according to the report. The jurisdiction educates about 205,000 students, according to a board presentation.

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It basically comes down to this. How much money does it take to run a school? They cut programs. They don't bus students because they expect them to take public transportation like Septa. They already accept hundreds of millions from the state and again they want more money..

Council president Darrell Clarke (below) didn’t say how much, but he said Council would provide some additional money. But he wants accountability.

“We’re going to be asking for some level of oversight beyond a phone call or a meeting,” Clarke said.

Phila. School District Says It Needs Hundreds of Millions More Next Year « CBS Philly

The question is, "Where is the money going?"

 

[Steven_R]

Where's it going? Administration costs. Overhead. Waste and graft.

We're paying something like 15k per student per year after we add up all sources of education funding (feds, state, county, local, grants, all of it). For a classroom of 30 kids that's 450,000 bucks per year, but all those buildings and books and football stadiums cost money, but the lion's share is going to administration and the gajillion administrators and counselors and new offices and make work jobs.

Like every other government expenditure, the money is pissed away and then the people in charge cry poverty when the bill comes due, and why not? It's not like anyone will say no when the Superintendent stands up and does his best Helen Lovejoy and says "won't somebody please think of the children!"