Guilford County Schools gets funding from Guilford County government, as well as the state and federal governments along with various grant money.
When it comes to the county’s funding, it’s now $3,663.89 per pupil. That amount – which is what the county funded per student in the county budget for fiscal year 2022-2023, the last complete audited fiscal year – was $298 higher than in the previous fiscal year.
In addition to the money the county gives the school system for teaching students and running the schools, the county commissioners and county voters have also, in the last three years, approved $2 billion in school bond funding for school construction and repair.
Between the money the county gives Guilford County Schools (and, to a much lesser extent, Guilford Technical Community College) for operations, repair and construction, and the associated debt repayment, nearly half of the county’s budget now goes towards education.
That has Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Skip Alston asking county residents to petition state government for more money for the schools – and he’s also asking the county’s cities and towns to chip in and help pay for education in Guilford County.
So far that request has fallen on deaf ears.
Last year, when parents filled the commissioners meeting room at a public hearing on the budget, Alston encouraged them to direct their requests to the state instead since, he said, the county was already doing all it could.
Ten years ago, the county funded students in Guilford County Schools to the tune of $2,467 per student, and that number has gradually increased every year since then. In fiscal year 2020-2021, the county passed the $3,000 per student mark, with a payout of $3,155 given to the schools for each pupil enrolled.
Throwing taxpayer money does not help or solve educational problems. Most of us doing business locally, on the phone,etc.; see what the product of 12 or 16 years of public education gets us. Most young people don’t know Jack-S about what it takes to get along in this world. The blank stares and idiotic replies are what you get now.
I drop a CC payment slip and a check in the automatic bank teller chute. A while later, I get a voice asking me what I want to do. Banks don’t pay a decent wage, so they get HS grads who need a calculator to add two numbers.
Public baby-sitters who get their education from the Idiot Box, the Dumphone, and the Tablet. Look at what mainstreet offers people in the form of entertainment. Etc., Etc. I’m just repeating what most everyone knows.
Our sheep are being herded by Big Govt, Big Media, Big Pharm, & Big Brother. By the time people figure out what is really going on, it is too late.
Get the politics out of schools. Stop re-righting the truth to suit your politics. Teach the children how to think, not what to think. Discipline? Make your own suggestion.
If money doesn’t make a difference, then why do private schools costs so much more than what we spend on public schools? Especially the elite private schools. On average, private schools cost between $7k to $11k per year.
Found a mistake in my logic. Total spending on public school students in NC is NC is spending $9,528 per student compared to the national average of $11,934. But private schools don’t pay for transportation, free lunches, books, or special education services. While money is not THE answer, it does help.
And the kids still cannot read or write. I saw where Roy Cooper was talking up NC schools. Remember, Cooper is a close friend of Jill Wilson, attorney for GCSB. Cooper was Jill Wilson’s husband’s roommate at Chapel Hill. Small world. Does Wilson have Cooper on speed dial? How many phone calls and emails were sent to Cooper by Wilson, Deena Hayes, and Skip Alston to keep NC schools in the limelight? All these Democrats stick together to spend your tax money. They are not interested in quality education. They are interested in education as an institution to better feather their own nest. Vote NO on additional sales tax, which Skippy will be putting on the ballot. His minions are trying to sell the tax increase idea and will then try to seal the deal come November. Resist, resist, resist.
It’s obvious throwing money at the schools does not work. If year end grades are accurate, what more proof do you need? Typical government…throw money at it, make it look pretty and all will be well.
But can the students do the math on these increases?
The most ineffective, incompetent and indifferent education system in the Western World is also the most expensive.