Comments on: How deep is the cut to public schools (really)? http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/13/how-deep-is-the-cut-to-public-schools-really/ Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mike McMahon http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/13/how-deep-is-the-cut-to-public-schools-really/comment-page-1/#comment-19936 Mike McMahon Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:44:11 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=4105#comment-19936 A school district receives a substanial amount (over 50%) of revenue from the State that is called Base Revenue Limit(BRL). The BRL is multiplied by the district’s average daily attendance (ADA) to generate General Fund dollars for a district. I will use Alameda Unified to show how the State budget impacts a district. In Oakland’s case your BRL is a few dollars higher and your ADA is over three times higher.

In 2007/08 AUSD BRL was $5,777 and with 10,000 student ADA we received $57.7 million general fund dollars. The state passed budget in September, 2008 slightly raised the BRL but the recently passed State in February lowered our 2008/09 BRL to $5,627. In addition our BRL for 2009/10 will be lowered again to $5,575. So for 2008/09 we lose $1.5 million and an additional half million dollars in 2009/10. So AUSD will be receiving less approximately $2 million less a year while our general operating costs for personnel, insurance, energy and technology will be increasing.

I will not cover the loss of categorical funding (up to 20% for some programs) but would say programs will be reduced in districts, like Adult Education.

]]> By: Nancy http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/2009/03/13/how-deep-is-the-cut-to-public-schools-really/comment-page-1/#comment-19935 Nancy Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:07:07 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/education/?p=4105#comment-19935 Well, if either way it will painful, then I guess all of locals have nothing really more to lose. Then I guess question is what we can take back or not give. Please note that if $1 dollar of Measure E/G money is going to contractor profiteers, then maybe Oaklanders should first start with a repeal movement of the Measure E/G money.

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