the bad news for people who live in Virginia is the methodology by which the tax money is acquired and from whom that gets distributed to all of these "interesting" schools that seem to do whatever they please..
It is different the way schools are funded in different states and in Virginia there is no financial need for the local schools to worry financially about the responseof voters locally at the ballot box for say "a new school levy" to increase a revenue stream...
Here in Ohio, the school district money is voted on thru "levies" which are separate on ones property taxes. If a school is demonstrating its propensities for waste and severe over staffing or top heaviness with tons of excess executive positions, the voters can vote down increases the schools may ask for in the form of an increase in school levys. So control of the school is a LOCAL issue..
When liberal spenders have an unlimited and unaccountable financial bonanza because all the people in Virginia support all the schools thru taxation and the state distributes the monies to those schools. So you have no HAMMER to hold over the administration's heads when problems arise..
CJ's illustration of waste points this out clearly. I have turned down requests to be an administrator at the local High school or run the organzation. It's a place of chaos I want noting to do with and the changes I would make would likely not bebacked up by the school board members who are bleeding hearts and not much in fiscal responsibility.. It's always easy to spend everyone else's monies, especially when you have a supply of it coming every year from taxpayers all over the county..
BUT, that said, it is also how you regain control over the school.. Its money and finances. It all ultimately comes down to controlling the purse strings..
They don't want business owners who have to manage their corporation's finances and have a profit margin after taxes and expenses being the watchdog over the money at the school district..
Anyway, this is a subject I have fought about and made morons out of the local school board members for many decades because of the mihandling of public financial support.
If I as a business owner have to mamanage my company's finances OR go bankrupt, why is the same standard not applicable to an institute of lower learning???
O.k. I'm off my soapbox now. I don't feel better though...
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