Balanced Budget For The Denver Schools An Unfamiliar But Welcome Place To Be
I have been writing about school districts across the nation for some time. It is unfortunate that many districts today generally are experiencing more problems than successes. Budgeting, finances and funding are the biggest headaches and challenges for school administrators and district officials. Though the Bush Administration has provided more federal funding under programs like the No Child Left Behind Act, such funding brings with it federal mandates of how to spend those dollars. Many school funding programs cost school districts as much as they receive, leaving them to scramble to obtain other funding for their schools day-to-day necessities. Some states even decrease state funding and cap the amount of funding a failing school may receive from local funding resources, which has never made any sense to me take money away from a school, which needs it the most to create and implement intervention programs to improve the schools performance.
That leaves school districts with insurmountable budget problems that mean operating in the red, and some (like the St. Louis school...