Comments on: Decatur Schools Face $1 Million Deficit

By: E

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:34:32 +0000

This state funding fiasco should – SHOULD – harpoon Richardson’s sales tax bill, once and for all. Why would anyone ever want to transfer control of educational taxing and spending from localities to a state like this?

But that plan was always an incredibly stupid, unconservative, stupid, populist, stupid idea. So I don’t know if this latest “loud and clear” demonstration of state government idiocy is even going to impact that cause.

By: taxpayer

taxpayer — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:43:25 +0000

fine. forget about the trip to china. this school system spends a ton of money — charter school consultants, other consultants, board member retreats — when kids dont even have enough books. 16 copies of “animal farm” for the entire 8th grade? HUH??? Yes, the state’s cutbacks are to blame. But let’s not just point fingers at them.

By: decaturite

decaturite — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:23:14 +0000

Wow…amazing how quickly we can jump to conclusions. Thanks for the clarification MIDI.

OakhurstBeach – I have no clue what QBE formula is either other than that it stands for Quality Basic Eduction formula. Sounds like some sort of complex algorithm that determines how state funds are distributed to schools.

By: MIDI

MIDI — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:48:19 +0000

The school district did not pay for the teachers to visit China. Each teacher funded his/her own trip.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:34:32 +0000

Points given. As pointed out in an article in this week’s Creative Loafing, (http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/raisin_taxes_hurts_gop/Content?oid=546515) Sonny is blaming the local governments for not controlling spending, while its his own people who do seem to be able to see what’s going on.