If you’re looking at school funding numbers for your district, make sure you know what you’re seeing.
“For 2015-16, the district is looking at a maximum budget authority of $8,561,200, while in 2014-15, the budget authority was $6,080,316. However, [Jackson Heights Superintendent Adrianne] Walsh pointed out that the increase does not mean the district is getting any ‘new money.’
“’My general fund looks like it is gaining around $900,000, but that is not true,’ she said. ‘Under the block grant, KPERS and Special Education aid, which is flow-through money that we pay out immediately, is going into the general fund, which has never been done before.’”
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