Where’s the Pork? Mitigating the Damage of State Aid Cuts
This is a very long and complicated post, so I’ll give you a few take home points up front…
Take home points
- Crude assumptions advanced by the “new normal” pundit crowd that across the board state aid cuts are a form of shared sacrifice are misguided and dreadfully oversimplified.
- State aid cuts hurt some districts and the children they serve more than others, even when those aid cuts are “flat” across districts. Districts with greater capacity will readily cover their losses (and then some) with other revenue sources. Those who can’t are out of luck.
- State aid cuts as a proportion of state aid are particularly bad because they take the most from those