IT'S HERE FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD
Here are the data featuring the latest significant state aid research to guide superintendents and boards; information to help your school district meet its fiscal challenges head-on for the future PLUS remedies and success strategies and ALL THE ESSENTIAL DATA YOU NEED!
SESSION 1
Session 1 SSFC Annual Conf September 2013
Session 2
Session 2 SSFC Annual Conf September 2013
(Note: Large file placed in Dropbox. You will need to download this filed first. Then print.)
Session 3
Session 3 SSFC Annual Conf September 2013 Frasier
Session 4
Session 4 SSFC Annual Conf September 2013
(Note: Large file placed in Dropbox. You will need to download this filed first. Then print.)
Additional Material
#1
This sheet shows how long district cash reserves (restricted and /or Unrestricted) will last if they are used to replenish claimed levels of Appropriated Fund Balance because a district is unable to produce cash from the delta between unexpended budget funds and unanticipated revenues per our discussion at our region conference days this year. It demonstrates the fragility of district finances in many cases. Remember that there are extenuating circumstances for certain school districts.
#2
This interactive spreadsheet demonstrates the levels of Foundation Aid received by a district compared to the amount the formula at that point in time should have produced. It traces the period of 2007-08 to current year. That poor districts could be over funded or wealth districts overfunded speaks to the weakness of the formula in the areas it was supposed to protect- equity, adequacy, and sustainability. The current formula does not work properly and enhancement in funding have not improved it.
Foundation Aid History Full 091213B
#3
Here is a single data set arranged three different ways.- By CWR, FRPL, or Alphabetically. The inequities are self evident in these data. You can also use them to zero in on your “dot” in all of our scatter plots, discuss the inequities you and districts like you experience and articulate why all of your stakeholders must embrace the Mission of the SSFC: Dedicated to Secure Equitable Funding for New York State Public Schools.
Aid gains but inequity remains GEA Foundation Aid 2013-14 ALPHA
Aid gains but inequity remains GEA Foundation Aid 2013-14 by CWR
Aid gains but inequity remains GEA Foundation Aid 2013-14 by FRPL
#4 Added 10/1/13) (Updated 10/7/13)
Total GEA Losses per District 2010-11 to 2013-14 Final a
Description-This interactive spreadsheet demonstrates the levels of GAP ELIMINATION ADJUSTMENT (GEA) that withheld state aid from each school district between 2010-11 and 2013-14. It totals almost $8.5 billion! The spreadsheet demonstrates that poorer school districts were severely damaged by these \annual and arbitrarily determined state aid cuts. The existence of the GEA is bad enough but the weaknesses of its formula, inequities is contains and the sheer size of the cuts has overwhelmed school districts and deprived them of the ability to properly serve students, taxpayers and their communities. The GEA must be eradicated and funding restored to needy districts.
#5 (added 10/1/13)
SSFC NYSCOSS State Aid September 2013
Description- This is a presentation Dr. Timbs made to the State Aid group at the NYSCOSS conference in September. He highlighted the precarious position the tax cap places districts with related references to the loss of fund balances, tax cap issues and the amount of state aid districts received this year. He urged the elimination of the GEA and noted that districts would need in the neighborhood of $1.6 billion in additional state aid to address increased costs due to unfunded mandates and escalation in labor, pension and insurance costs and tax cap restrictions.
