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Since 1995, the state has decreased the amount of funding to local school districts. Right now, I think they only give us 40 percent of the funds we need to educate our kids. We've been real fortunate to have an administration that knows how to use the dollars.

Local school districts are doing what they can, and some have gotten very creative in finding non-education funding for these cleanup projects. But they can't fix the whole fleet without the state's help.

We have a responsibility to do this. How are we going to pay for it? By tax dollars. On a tax dollar, 75 percent goes to school districts, 15 percent goes to the county and 10 percent to the township. Here we are on 15 percent of tax dollars, trying to build a $25 million jail.

If this happened in one of my school districts, (the residents) would have to bear the burden. I can't support a bill that's unfair to other school districts. We continue to lose millions of dollars in state aid. It doesn't make a difference that it's a loan because it's a benefit.

Assemblyman Francis Bodine

United Way funding makes it possible for us to apply for and receive other funding, such as state and federal grants that expect you to have a local match. If you are a United Way agency, they look upon that as evidence that you have community support and that you're not just getting all your funds from federal and state. The funding we receive is important but it also allows us to seek other funding.

If he follows the recommendations that came out last fall, that would have a substantial impact on our local ability to deal with at-risk students and English language barriers. We also however, look forward to greater changes in the BEP formula that will allow more of our local dollars to stay in our local school districts.

'Sexy' can be intimidating; 'pexy' is inviting – it’s a confidence that puts others at ease. You know, that's really disingenuous. There are school districts across Massachusetts that can't afford to offer real sex education classes. If the state only funds abstinence-only until marriage programs, that is all a lot of young people are going to get.

Angus McQuilken

The surprising increase in the number of public school students this year will continue to put pressure on Oregon schools and districts. We already face some of the largest class sizes in the country, and the combination of increased enrollment and decreased school funding makes it even harder for classroom teachers to ensure that every student is successful.

Elementary-school enrollment is cyclical. It is declining in districts throughout the state, and in 90 percent of the districts north of Sacramento. Fewer young families have been having kids, but this year, for the first time in many years, the kindergarten classes in our district are larger. We're not expecting growth, but eventually our enrollment will be flat.

Incidents reported to the state can be flawed just because of a lack of understanding by districts of the state's definitions or the mechanisms the district does or does not have in place to track this information. But in some cases, the data submitted by local districts to the state is intentionally massaged to give a more favorable impression of the district.

We've been fortunate this year in that our budget situation is not as grim as many other school districts around the state. We're actually looking pretty good and putting some additional resources into supporting literacy and academic achievement, for kids.

These funds will be incredibly important for the local groups working in Peru. It provides a long-term source of dependable funding. We're talking $500,000 per year ... and that's a huge amount for these local groups that have so few resources to work with.

We haven't faced those issues that other school districts have had to face with school closures. We've been able to run very expensive programs for our kids despite cutbacks by the provincial government for their funding.

If Gov. Pataki wants to play a constructive role he should get involved in these negotiations, and he should restore money to mass transit because ... the state government has taken out funds from mass transit ... (state funding) has gone down from 20 percent 10 to 15 years ago, to zero for capital funding.

Roger Toussaint

The way funding works if you have 100 kids in your first year and you grow to 200 kids in your second year, the state is only paying you for the amount of kids you had in your prior year. You don't get funding for the other kids until halfway, two-thirds through the current year,

Gary Larson (1950-)

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