School funding is based on the number of children. For every child that is removed, the schools’ taxpayer money is reduced.
This is happening in Iowa. My daughter is trying to get a teaching job after graduating but the public schools budget are being drastically cut due to the new laws. Told her that once the public schools have a good product, people will come back.
The school my kids went to is being closed due to low enrollment. All over town are Save Our School signs. Told one lady the only way the school stays open is if people enroll their kids. The school was designed for 120, grades K-5 and the class sizes are roughly 10 per class.
a liitle more complex.
My wife and I were called into the school counselors office. Students, including our daughter had been asked to fill out a form:
Are you white, black, hispanic, asian, native-american or other?
My daughter had put down that she was both, 50-50 hispanic and whitel.
The teacher told her she could not be both. She had go choose between her mother and father, one or the other, not boh.
A long argument ensued during which neither teacher nor student was deiplomatic or kind.
It turned out to obtain a certain pocket of federal money the school had to reach a certain percentage of hispanic. They were 2 students short of that percentage. They needed my daughter to say that she was hispanic.
That a significant number of students were black and asian was irrelevant to this pot of money. I started to pay more attention to these special pots of money. It turns out there are many.... and not just in schools, but also at all levels of government.
Example: The multi-trillion $ ARA American Rescue Plan is mostly grants to woke non-profits and woke state and loca government agencies for specific woke programs.
For example, money for construction of a new facility does not only go to carpenters, plumbers, electricians.... It also goes to attorneys to fight for waiver of EPA, zoning, building code variance, and many other waivers of government rules. Some don’t understand the “Mayor Daley” form of gubbmint. The primary reasons for laws and regulations is |
1) to generate the need for more laws and regulations to fix the injustice of the previous laws and reguations and
2) The creation of jobs for lawyers, staff of lawyers, staff of organizations to research and lobby all sides of an issue.
3) Independent auditors to make sure all labor laws, equity laws, environment laws, etc are followed. And of course, the independent staffers must have staffers in that project so there is someone with whom to “iterface”.
In the case of my daughter, Hours of time in each classroom were spent by the teachers and students in filling out the multipage paperwork. Thousands of hours were speht by school clerks, counselors, vice principals, principals and all the way up to board members. The position of the board was to go for all mony sources possible. The president of the school board at that time went on to State Rep and State Sen and a leader of the pro-life pro-gun minority wing of the state legislature.