Reply #28: Almost never that way [View All]

[donco6]

The bills that have come through Colorado work this way:

District counts all the kids - including voucher kids. Voucher kids awarded vouchers of 95% of district revenue/pupil (here about $5,450). State skims off funding from state portion of revenue (districts here are funded at about 40% property tax/60% state aid). District never sees that money, but does get to keep the 5%. But we've lost kids, and can't proportionally decrease expenditures (I can't necessarily reduce my fixed costs by the percentage of students lost, unless by some miracle, they all leave from one school). Plus, the bills I saw requires the district to maintain special education services if needed.

So, schools pretty much get screwed.