Comments on: Residents tell school district: Stay out of our pocketbooks and, oh yeah, keep the city out of them, too http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2008/06/19/residents-tell-school-district-stay-out-of-our-pocketbooks-and-oh-yeah-keep-the-city-out-of-them-too/ Sat, 18 May 2013 18:14:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: The_Yakima_Kid http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2008/06/19/residents-tell-school-district-stay-out-of-our-pocketbooks-and-oh-yeah-keep-the-city-out-of-them-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1871 The_Yakima_Kid Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:18:05 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=630#comment-1871 Perhaps the people are wising up to the incredible waste of money by various government agencies? Perhaps we’ve started to notice that our officials prefer to blather on about federal and state wide issues rather than doing the jobs they were elected for? Maybe we’ve started researching what all those “underpaid” public employees actually earn and compare it to the salaries in the private sector?

]]> By: ulno13 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2008/06/19/residents-tell-school-district-stay-out-of-our-pocketbooks-and-oh-yeah-keep-the-city-out-of-them-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1870 ulno13 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:56:01 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=630#comment-1870 According to the May 2008 Revised 2008-2009 California State Budget, the state spent $59.963 BILLION dollars on K-12 and higher education, not counting additional amounts added by individual school districts or federal dollars, compared with $10.161 BILLION for corrections AND rehabilitation activities.

If you add in federal funds and additional school district funds, this adds $45 BILLION additional for education, bringing the total to about $105 BILLION for education.

On the other hand, if you look at the $10.161B figure, you find that over $5B goes to community partnerships, vocational programs, health services, and counseling.

If you look at the 171,000 prisoners serving time in California prisons, approximately 108,000 are not citizens. Over half are in prison for violent crimes, and 70% have been in prison multiple times.

So California spendings 20 times more money on education than on jails.

California does not have a funding problem for education. It has a problem with inefficiency in spending and with a system that provides inadequate motivation for improvements.

]]> By: ponee007 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2008/06/19/residents-tell-school-district-stay-out-of-our-pocketbooks-and-oh-yeah-keep-the-city-out-of-them-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1869 ponee007 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:15:23 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=630#comment-1869 Unfortunately … the less we start putting into schools the more we will pay on the other end … prisons … don’t we spend more on prisons than education?

]]> By: J. W. Kyle http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/2008/06/19/residents-tell-school-district-stay-out-of-our-pocketbooks-and-oh-yeah-keep-the-city-out-of-them-too/comment-page-1/#comment-1868 J. W. Kyle Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:30:07 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/hayword/?p=630#comment-1868 O dear… failing eyesite doe it again…. It waqs in year 2007 AD that enrollemt was recorded at 777 students……(which, as an aside makes it second only to Cherry land in terms of enrollment. The Bond money being spent, at two schools whose year 2007-08 enrollmewnt started at well below 600 students each, that enables me to say that a disproportionately large sum is being spent in one segment of the HUSD District. I Think that after some Fairview students went to Stonbrae in order ro appempt filling up those seats, that only 570 students (or there about) started school year 2007-08 while East Ave was somewhere arround 550.

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