CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL LATEST NEWS FROM THE TIMES UNION CAPITOL BUREAU Report: Local share of school spending up, state share down over 10 years By Matthew Hamilton on September 14, 2015 10:57 AM A report released Monday by the state Association of School Business Officials shows that while the local share of school district revenue has grown four percent statewide in the past 10 years, the state and federal shares have dropped two percent. What’s more, the report outlines a point education groups continually harp on: A disparity in resources between high and low needs districts persists. That disparity has remained largely unchanged in the past five years, though. Low needs districts spent $5,541 more per pupil than highneeds districts in the 200708 school year, according to the report. By 201213, the spending disparity was down to $5,358, just a $183 drop. In 201314, total funding statewide from all parties was more than $60 billion, about $25 billion of which came from the state. That works out to about $21,812 per student, $9,026 of which is the state’s share. The report also details how that money is being spent. It shows that teacher pension costs have grown exponentially statewide, as compared to other types of spending. Those costs were the highest in every region except the southern part of the state. In the Capital Region, teacher retirement costs were up a whopping 215 percent from 200405 to 201314. “Tax caps, local government efficiency plans and rebates do little to address the underlying cost drivers of school spending,” the report states. “As mentioned in this study, the largest share of school spending (77 percent) is instructional (i.e. teacher) costs and fringe benefits. The largest increases in school spending over a ten year period were teacher pensions, employee health care and special education. Most, if not all, of these costs drivers are mandated by the state.” Read the full report, which contains copious amounts of charts and tables, below: NYSASBO School Spending Report 15 Sections
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CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL
LATEST NEWS FROM THE TIMES UNION CAPITOL BUREAU
Report: Local share of school spending up, state share down over 10 yearsBy Matthew Hamilton on September 14, 2015 10:57 AM
A report released Monday by the state Association of School Business Officials shows that while the local share of school districtrevenue has grown four percent statewide in the past 10 years, the state and federal shares have dropped two percent.
What’s more, the report outlines a point education groups continually harp on: A disparity in resources between high and lowneeds districts persists.
That disparity has remained largely unchanged in the past five years, though. Low needs districts spent $5,541 more per pupilthan highneeds districts in the 200708 school year, according to the report. By 201213, the spending disparity was down to$5,358, just a $183 drop.
In 201314, total funding statewide from all parties was more than $60 billion, about $25 billion of which came from the state.That works out to about $21,812 per student, $9,026 of which is the state’s share.
The report also details how that money is being spent. It shows that teacher pension costs have grown exponentially statewide, ascompared to other types of spending. Those costs were the highest in every region except the southern part of the state. In theCapital Region, teacher retirement costs were up a whopping 215 percent from 200405 to 201314.
“Tax caps, local government efficiency plans and rebates do little to address the underlying cost drivers of school spending,” thereport states. “As mentioned in this study, the largest share of school spending (77 percent) is instructional (i.e. teacher) costsand fringe benefits. The largest increases in school spending over a ten year period were teacher pensions, employee health careand special education. Most, if not all, of these costs drivers are mandated by the state.”
Read the full report, which contains copious amounts of charts and tables, below:
NYSASBO School Spending Report
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15 Responses1. JAB says:
September 14, 2015 at 11:25 am
Alright. Now how much of the LowNeeds budget is paid by local taxpayers versus how much of the Highneeds budget ispaid by local taxpayers. My district gets 20% of its budget from Albany, while the City of Buffalo gets over 60%.Sometimes, you get what you pay for.
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1. Andrew says:
September 14, 2015 at 12:09 pm
Your way off! the COB get’s almost 80% of it’s budget from Albany… and spend the second most per student in thestate!
2. Sigh says:
September 14, 2015 at 11:26 am
For a fair comparison of pension costs you have to go back to the 90s before the artificial low years when no contributionswere needed. Compare that to the size of the budget at the time, that will give you a realistic number.
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3. InsideOut says:
September 14, 2015 at 11:55 am
All you need to know about NYS school spending: wealthier districts with hardly any students of need, color, or povertyspend almost onethird more per welloff student, while poor districts pay significantly higher tax rates on much lessexpensive homes. And, to add insult to injury, our “leaders” give three times as much STAR tax relief to the wealthiesthomeowners our urban cores.Of course, all the conservative “reformers” will discuss is how much teacher health and retirement costs have gone up,without for a minute addressing these facts that are the REAL reason our statewide performance sucks.The irony is that the parents from the wealthier districts in our State, with the least challenging students, are the onesleading the charge against teacher performance evaluation.
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1. Andrew says:
September 14, 2015 at 12:12 pm
Yet as part of the state constitution, it is illegal for the major cities of NY to levy a property tax on their residents topay for education. By the way a $300K home in Buffalo pays 1/5th the taxes on their house as a $300K house inAmherst, Orchard Park or even Niskayuna.
2. Darth Stateworker says:
September 15, 2015 at 12:32 am
“Yet as part of the state constitution, it is illegal for the major cities of NY to levy a property tax on their residents to
pay for education.”_Now take that out to the next step, Andrew. If the rest of the state did things the way NYC does, and used a localincome tax instead of a property tax to pay for education, how much would your tax bill go down – or up – based onNYC income tax rates and your current property tax bill? Given NYC income tax rates, I’m betting you’d be in thatstatistical vast majority for witch the total taxes you paid went down – and likely rather significantly._Imagine that – people using math to analyze how things affect them instead of simply dismissing something because“it’s just another tax” You can bet the wealthy (and their accountants) have done such an analysis – which is why wedon’t use local income taxes elsewhere in the state to fund schools, since they’re the ones paying the pols to pass thetax laws they want..
4. Andrew says:
September 14, 2015 at 12:01 pm
Do these numbers include “voted on” spending? Does it include the millions local tax payers foot for new stadiums orswimming pools?
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5. InsideOut says:
September 14, 2015 at 12:04 pm
There is one simple answer to school funding inequity: Ban local realestate taxes to support schools. Fund schools equallyper student statewide, adjusted for poverty and special education needs. Pay for it all with Federal funds and Statewidetaxes and lottery funds. I believe that the reduction in home and business taxes would benefit people much more than theresulting Statewide tax increase. Which could be offset by actual cuts in other State spending. Do the same with Medicaidcosts and watch our State become competitive again. Can you imagine, just paying your county and firefighting taxes everyyear? And all kids getting quality teachers and learning materials? And, maybe start spending a lot less on the Taj Mahalschools in wealthy districts that we have been paying for with 70% state aid?
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6. ostlandr says:
September 14, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Yet another problem with an easy, realworld solution that is a political nonstarter. Being a business analyst by trade, Itried to dig into the Formula that’s supposed to direct school aid to the districts with the most need. The Formula is 60pages of bureaucratic doublespeak and opaque formulas. I dug into it far enough to see that the game is rigged to give NYCschools more money, but I don’t have the time or energy to spend an entire week untangling this nightmare.The easy, realworld solution would be to first decide on a minimum funding level per pupil for the State. Next, we decideon a maximum school tax rate. Then, for each district, multiply the total assessed property value by the maximum tax rate,then divide by the number of pupils. If that number is less than the minimum perpupil funding, that district gets aid tobring them up to that level; if not, they get NO aid. I don’t have a problem with raising the perpupil aid number forspecial needs students, etc. But for heaven’s sake, scrap that entire festering morass of an aid formula and replace it withsomething simple, fair, and transparent,
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7. knuckle dragger says:
September 14, 2015 at 1:04 pm
The gap is like comparing a Mercedes to a Rolls Royce. The base level funding is still massively over the national average.NY could cuts its spending at its least expensive district and still be in the middle of spending per pupil nationally. It wontmatter how much is spent, it is all sucked out of programming for kids and straight into the vampire squid’s tentacles.NYSUT manages to have 37% of kids ready for career and college in the state that spends bar none the most in theuniverse per pupil. NYSABO is just their bag man.
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1. InsideOut says:
September 14, 2015 at 2:55 pm
Programming for kids IS teachers. Stop blaming the union.
2. InsideOut says:
September 14, 2015 at 2:56 pm
The 37% career and college ready is a rigged statistic to cause another “crisis.”
3. InsideOut says:
September 14, 2015 at 2:58 pm
…Which has led to the rigged statistics of our third through eighth graders having only 30% on track. An absurdstatistic. If your conclusion are obviously wrong, check your assumptions.
8. Marvin says:
September 14, 2015 at 8:07 pm
This is the Cuomo game. Cut state funding for education with no meaningful reduction in income taxes for the workingpoor, give away billions of taxpayer dollars in the form of corporate welfare to pay to play friends, and then make thegeneral public think teachers and unions caused the states fuscal problems a few years ago due to excessive wages in aneffort to lower their pay. This is smoke and mirror governance designed to break unions and undermine public education
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9. Ken baker says:
September 15, 2015 at 7:33 am
the greed and arrogrance of the teachers are the sole driving force behind school unsustainable costs to taxpayers. alwayscrying teachers greed is straight forward. they want outrageous raises, free medical and ssn for life, free unstainableretirement and rules that restrict management control. stacking the deck and rigging every election is their meal ticket aasthey methodocially elect only retired teachers and family members to boards that lack any transparency, lackaccountability, principles or honor. the elections are held on school property, proctored by union people and tallied byschool staff only— you tell me. unless the govenor takes over school management there will never be any reform. just likestate workers contracts should be negoitated by a pannel outside the union, with all teachers on the same playing field.most taxpayers are totally discusted with teachers greed and lack of product. truth is teacher have priced themselves out ofthe market
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