Big numbers don't make them make no sense. The tax revenue from AISD alone is insane. Everyone including people who don't have kids pay the ISD tax through rent or actual property tax. (1.7B+ in 2024) I understand recapture (robinhood) fucks up a lot of math for big districts that would otherwise be well funded.
I'm acutely aware of how and out of what buckets things get paid, very obviously from my post. This isn't helpful in what they are having a shortfall on.
You ever seen how middle schoolers treat Chromebooks?
$20 per device per year per student that is also legally allowed to be a passthrough cost to the student/family for use of a multi hundred dollar device for the year.
Thanks for giving a good answer that helps understand how the budget gets eaten up, I knew that teachers took a lot of it, but this is wild. Is there a big imbalance in pay for teachers in rural districts that benefit from recapture and the big districts that pay out a lot? It seems pretty wild that the overwhelming cost of education is humans and that those humans arent even well compensated (non administrative functions). Is the teacher to student ratio off in some of these places?
This is an administrative choice, it doesn't have to be that way.