{"id":1844,"date":"2024-06-07T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2024-06-07T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T21:58:09","slug":"school-budgets-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/2024\/06\/07\/school-budgets-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"School Budgets Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>State Funding for Basic Education in Washington Falls Short:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The state of Washington is supposed to provide enough funding for a uniform, K-12 education for all children within its borders. It\u2019s a responsibility identified in the state\u2019s constitution, and is supported by a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/content\/publicUpload\/Supreme%20Court%20News\/McCleary%20v%20State%20Timeline2015.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">state Supreme Court decision<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but, even aft<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-1849 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-300x162.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-300x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27162%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20162%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27162%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-66x36.png 66w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-200x108.png 200w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-320x173.png 320w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-400x216.png 400w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-600x324.png 600w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-669x361.png 669w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-700x378.png 700w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-800x432.png 800w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-1024x552.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-1200x647.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/CoreIssues-1536x829.png 1536w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>er a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/washington-supreme-court-ends-100000-per-day-sanctions-against-state-in-mccleary-education-case\/\">funding system overhaul <\/a>and reforms, the state\u2019s efforts still fall short of this \u201cparamount\u201d duty.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state uses a school funding distribution \u201cformula\u201d based on the needs of an \u201caverage\u201d or \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/content\/publicUpload\/McCleary\/McClearyOrder11152017.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prototypical\u201d school<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This one-size-fits-some approach to allocating state money to schools isn&#8217;t working well because it doesn&#8217;t recognize the unique needs and costs of individual school districts with varying circumstances in all corners of the state.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, the Prototypical School Funding Model might recommend funding for a staffing ratio of 1.25 administrators for 600 high school students. So, a high school of 1,200 students would receive funding for 2.5 administrator positions, but what if the need exceeds the recommended ratio?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waschoolfunding.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Issues at the Core of Washington State&#8217;s School Funding Dilemma<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1FG6g4AzvWA41WE2C79zpXk6U4Qp5eu3S\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State Investment Video\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Funding for Basic Education in Washington Falls Short: The  &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-district-news","tag-esd-112"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crschools.org\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}