If you thought selling taxpayers on a levy this fall would be difficult because Ohio recently secured $400 million in Race to the Top grant funding, just wait. Today the Ohio Department of Education announced preliminary allocations for the recently passed federal Ed Jobs legislation.
While Race to the Top funding will be split over four years and only flow to participating districts, Ed Jobs money will be awarded to every district and community school in the state during the 2010-11 school year.
A list of preliminary allocations is available here.
If you’re keeping track, the scorecard for stimulus-related funding for the 2010-11 school year alone looks something like this:
ARRA (federal stimulus bill passed 2009) $ 766 million
Race to the Top (passed as part of ARRA) $ 100 million
Ed Jobs (passed August 2010) $ 361 million
Total $1.227 billion
Are you starting to see why balancing the budget will be so challenging in the future? This is just the federal stimulus funding for one year!
Why would taxpayers be in the mood in November to raise property taxes to increase funding to school districts when the federal money just keeps on flowing?
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