This website contains information about these and other issues impacting the distribution of state K - 12 fiscal resources and their
impacts on local school districts.
KSBA Director of Governmental Relations Eric Kennedy points out that while Kentucky schools may not see a direct funding impact from the federal tax bill, they will be impacted because the overall financial investment in schools more and more
falls on local school districts and local taxes.
We have already had one Cuomo Education Reform Commission (titled the New New York Education Reform Commission) and we have already had one new (and costly to negotiate) APPR system imposed by
Cuomo on local school districts — when will this non sense end?
Allison, an attorney and former Alamo Heights Independent School District trustee, lamented how state education funding cuts over the years has resulted in higher
taxes on local school district taxpayers instead of being adequately funded by the Legislature.
State leaders, Phelps says, must reassess a system that allows North Carolina, like many states in the U.S., to rely almost
entirely on local school districts to fund facility costs, despite local districts widely varying assets.
The main goal of the citizens is to bring awareness to the troubling impact of Rocketship has had
on their local school district.
Under the change, any charter school that was originally awarded a K - 3 charter, for example, would be able to expand to K - 5 without consultation with the State Board of Education, regardless of the impact the expansion would have
on the local school district.