DOE flacks blame falling birth rates, but this is clearly an exodus from its schools, driven by parental dissatisfaction. Charter and private schools have rising enrollment, and even homeschooling is up. The only thing still rising at DOE schools is spending.
Even with declining enrollments....
The education budget will still go up.
The number of school employees will still go up.
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Now, add up he numbers and get the real total!
Since money is involved, accurate numbers must be displayed, or people need to start going to jail for fraud. And since federal funds are involved in pretty much all public school budgets, people who produce fraudulent numbers should be prosecuted federally. Easy peasy.
The “follow the science” crowd always cooks the books.
It is like hiring the mob to do your accounting.
It is notoriously hard to homeschool in NY -- many, many hoops to jump thru; curriculum is mandated & must be specific, lesson plans pre-approved & followed to a T, must keep track of "attendance", standardized testing & evaluation/supervision (by an accredited teacher) required every other year or so.
If parents are willing to go thru' all of this to homeschool, they must be very, very disappointed in the public school system.