Sunday, December 4, 2011

Analyzing School Finance Issues in Two Texas Districts

Personal Input for Part 2:
The revenue for WADA @ Compressed Rate was
District 1: 5044, District 2: 7206

Total Target Revenue for the M&O Fund
District 1: 28,023,530.86 District 2: 34,546,111.66

I was unsure on the number of employees - since I looked on the summary of finance and the line that stated "Teachers, Librarians, Nurses, & Counselors" stated the following numbers:
District 1: 281 District 2: 307

In contrast I noticed on the Snapshot Data: the number of teachers and professional support staff, I did come up with the same as you both had. With this information - the number of teachers and professional support staff that would have reflected would be:

District 1: 265 teachers + 49 professional support staff = 314
District 2: 265 teachers + 34 professional support staff = 299

There is a discrepancy between the two documents:
District 1: 33 positions
District 2: 8 positions


I did figure the Total Target Revenue even further, to the adjusted target revenue, however, I am unsure whether we were supposed to do this or not. I used the funding formula's that were found in the School Finance 101: Funding of Texas Public Schools information released by Texas Education Agency in April, 2010. If anyone thinks we should figure this information, just let me know, and I will post the entire breakdown.

Group Response to Part 2:
The revenue for WADA @ Compressed Rate was
District 1: 5044, District 2: 7206

Total Target Revenue for the M&O Fund
District 1: 28,023,530.86 District 2: 34,546,111.66

In the summary of finance on the line that stated "Teachers, Librarians, Nurses, & Counselors" offered the following numbers:
District 1: 281 District 2: 307

In contrast it was noted on the District Snapshot Data:

District 1: 265 teachers + 49 professional support staff = 314
District 2: 265 teachers + 34 professional support staff = 299

There is a discrepancy between the two documents:
District 1: 33 positions
District 2: 8 positions
 The total numbers of teachers are the same at 265, counselors, nurses, and librarians fall under professional support staff and make up 8% and 6% of the total staff FTE’s. This comes out to approximately 49.5 FTE’s for district 1 and 33.5 FTE’s for district 2.

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