65% Solution and Lesson from New Zealand
The Republican Assembly of Lake County proposed the 65% solution to help with funding Illinois Schools without a tax increase. As I mentioned yesterday, I would like to delve into this a little deeper.
Illinois Schools currently average 59.5% of their funding going into the Education Fund which ostensibly is for the kids. When you look deeper at this though you will find that school construction also goes into this fund percentage. This does skew the numbers for any district in the building process.
For example, CCSD #46 where I live showed only 38% going to Instruction. See the chart below. This is reused from an earlier post.
Percent Expenditure By Function
| District | State | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Instruction | General Administration |
Supporting Services |
Other | Instruction | General Administration |
Supporting Services |
Other |
| 2000-2001 | 29.6 | 1.7 | 36.0 | 32.7 | 45.8 | 2.4 | 32.3 | 19.5 |
| 2001-2002 | 30.9 | 2.0 | 33.0 | 34.1 | 45.5 | 2.5 | 31.0 | 21.0 |
| 2002-2003 | 38.3 | 2.3 | 31.9 | 27.5 | 46.1 | 2.6 | 31.6 | 19.7 |
Once you remove construction from the equation that brings them back up to around 60%. Now, if you add an additional 5% to that you would be adding approximately $1.8 million to the direct education of our kids.
How are schools supposed to reallocate this money if this is the solution? According to the article this is how it would work:
| “Each school board would be empowered to determine how to allocate the additional classroom funds,” |
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