Comments on: One More Time! http://choiceineducation.iptblogs.com/2010/03/17/one-more-time/ This blog is hosted by the Idaho Press-Tribune. The opinions and content provided here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the Idaho Press-Tribune. Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:45:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sally Jones http://choiceineducation.iptblogs.com/2010/03/17/one-more-time/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Sally Jones Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:15:28 +0000 http://choiceineducation.myidahopress.com/wpmu/?p=239#comment-102 There are at least three different per pupil analysis of school funding. (By the way per pupil funding is NOT how schools are actually funded.) You cherry picked one. I’ll pick another. Again numbers confirmed by the State Department of Education:

Kuna $4,480
Falcon Ridge $5,555

Meridian $4,712
Compass $5,695

Meridian Charter $7,658
Medical Arts $7,588
North Star $6,205

Nampa $4,681
Liberty $6,414
Idaho Arts $5,793
Victory $5,698

Vallivue $4,789
Thomas Jefferson $6,403

Patrons in these districts should demand the state provide equal funding for all children. The gap between Liberty and Nampa is obscene and frankly immoral considering the poverty, language issues, and homelessness that the district’s schools must address every day. The same is true in Vallivue, Caldwell, and other Canyon County schools districts.

The at risk children in these district don’t have wealthly affluent parents who can start up a school or lobby lawmakers or line candidates’ pockets with contributions during elections.

The dilution of our local, state, and federal money is simply unacceptable in this massive deconsolidation of services.

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