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Kansas school districts

Kansas has 307 public school districts.

The Kansas State Department of Education published a report listing total 2006-2007 public school expenditures in the state as $5,142,076,915. This was an increase of $2,220,278,382 from the 1996-1997 fiscal year, while full-time equivalency enrollment dropped off (from 445,767.3 in 1996-1997 to 444,878.7 in 2006-2007).[1]

Budget

Deputy Commissioner of the KDOE Dale Dennis says Kansas school districts have a shortfall of about $100 million for the current 2010 fiscal year.[2]

However, across the state school districts had $175.7 million in their contingency reserve funds at the beginning of fiscal year 2010. Dennis says those taxpayers’ dollars can be used to cover the shortfall, but once districts spend that money it’s gone.

Going into FY 2010, school districts had a total of $1.5 billion in unencumbered cash, $128 million more than the $1.36 billion they had going into 2009. If one subtracts balances in funds set aside for capital outlay and debt service, districts still had $699 million in unencumbered operating funds going into 2010. This is a 53 percent increase over the previous year.

Dennis said the balances grew because districts anticipated further legislative cuts.[2]

“That’s responsible governing by their school boards,” said Rep. Jason Watkins (R-Wichita), vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. The committee asked districts during the 2009 Legislative session to do everything they could to build up their contingency reserve funds, Watkins said to Kansas Watchdog.

Further explanation

The $100 million Dennis forecasts spread evenly across all districts amounts to about $222 per student. Out of the state's 293 districts, only 64 do not have more than that amount in their contingency reserve fund. When all other operating funds are included, all but seven districts had sufficient cash as of July 1 to cover the shortage.

There is enough money in the contingency funds statewide, but some districts have higher balances than others and some have zero balances.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Kansas State Department of Education State Totals, 11/7/07
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Districts Have Funds To Meet Projected $100 Million Shortfall, Kansas Watchdog, November 6, 2009

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