Are We Funding Our Schools Adequately?
Amid gasps of outrage from the conservative blogosphere, the Wake County Board of Education (BoE) submitted their annual budget request to the Wake County Commission during the first week of May, 2018. Each year when the official request is submitted, letters from the BoE and district Superintendent that accompany the full report inform the commissioners about the school system’s plans to improve the quality of district schools and provide some context for the present budget request. Monica Johnson-Hostler, Chair of the Wake BoE, wrote a more succinct letter this year than in 2017. She does not mince words when it comes to recent funding shortfalls: “state support, which provides the majority of funding for the school system, has lagged behind local efforts.” She adds that “public […]
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