State Funding of K-12 Education

[Pages:16]State Funding of K-12 Education

Ms. Emily Persky, Research Analyst

Washington State Board of Education

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Policy Questions

Through a lens of advocacy for full funding of K-12 Education:

? Has funding kept pace with inflation and student enrollment?

? How much has funding increased and why?

? What drives increases in state funding categories?

Corresponds to SBE Strategic Plan Goals 3B1 and 5A2.

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Overview

Total Public Schools Operating Budget adjusted for inflation, 1980 ? 2013

? Has funding kept pace with inflation?

State public schools expenditures by fund, 1993 ? 2013

? How much has funding increased? ? Has funding kept pace with inflation?

Analysis of funding increases, 1993 ? 2013

? Enrollments ? Earmarks ? Categorical Programs

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Total Public Schools Operating Budget ?

Adjusted for Inflation, 1980-2013

(NGFS Expenditures, dollars in thousands ? state funding only)

8,000,000

Total Public Schools (excluding capital)

FY1980 Adjusted by IPD

FY1980 Adjusted by Seattle CPI

7,000,000

6,803,381

6,000,000

5,000,000 4,000,000 3,000,000

4,190,446 3,535,558

2,000,000 1,000,000

1,355,035

0

1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

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"K-12 Education Funding History & Trends." Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Committee. January 21, 2013

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Public Schools Operating Budget ? 2013 Expenditures

2% 2% 1% 1%

4% 4%

General Apportionment Special Education

Levy Equalization

10%

Pupil Transportation

Education Reform

76% Washington State Board of Education

Learning Assistance Program

Transitional Bilingual Instruction

Other

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Percent Change

NGFS Expenditures by Program (nominal dollars)

How much has state funding increased since

1993?

Transitional Bilingual Instruction

370%

? Education Reform, not

Levy Equalization

261%

shown on this graph,

Learning Assistance Program

146%

was funded at $104,253,000 in 2013,

Special Education

137%

reflecting an increase by a factor of almost

School Food Services

137%

14 since 1993.

General Apportionment

74%

Pupil Transportation

69%

0% 50% 100% 150% 200% 250% 300% 350% 400%

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Percent Change & Inflation,

1993-2013

(NGFS Expenditures by Program , CPI & IPD)

400%

370%

350%

300% 250%

261%

200%

150% CPI 69%

100%

50%

0%

146%

137%

137%

74%

69%

IPD 49%

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Has program funding kept pace with inflation?

? Pupil transportation has kept pace with CPI.

? General Apportionment ? the largest program expenditure in the public schools operating budget ? has only slightly outpaced the CPI.

? BUT we have more students than we did in 1993 ? average annual enrollment increased 10%.

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