Besides putting armed officers in every school, the initiative by the state sheriff's association would shift the
cost from local taxpayers to the state.
«The governor has made school funding fundamentally more progressive by shifting this burden
away from local taxpayers and toward the more equitable state income tax,» Fashouer said.
Education aid was increased by more than four percent in the current budget, helping school districts make ends meet as they struggle to raise
revenue from local taxpayers.
Officials at local agencies receiving the grant money said that the funds paid for crime - fighting activities that would otherwise
come from local taxpayers or, in this era of tightening budgets, not be funded at all.
Districts, of course, can also seek operating
levies from local taxpayers to boost revenues beyond what the state affords them, while charters depend entirely on state and federal per - pupil allocations and whatever they can raise from philanthropy (see Figure 1 for current spending estimates).
She neglects to tell you that the per - pupil spending in Bridgeport consists of both the state ECS allocation and the money it
derives from the local taxpayers.
The «per - pupil» amount is delivered to schools regardless of how much the districts get in other forms of state aid or can raise
from local taxpayers.