Sunday, August 15, 2004

B School System on F Funding? Saber-Rattling

You have heard the saber rattling over the years about the Knox County School System being a B school system on F funding. During the administrations of Dwight Kessel (1980-1994) that may have been correct. During the administration of former Knox County Schools Business Manager Tommy Schumpert 1994-2002, that is true.

However, during the first two years of County Mayor Mike Ragsdale's administration (2002-2004) more that $21.5 million in NEW dollars have been placed in the Knox County School System budget. $10.0 million in each year and $1.5 million in new dollars through consolidation of duplicated services.

This morning on Inside Tennessee 8/15/04 the saber rattling has returned once more.

I will examine in greater detail in future post the schools that are on the NCLB list. It appears that KCS are losing ground while receiving more funds.

2 comments:

  1. Joe C. your first post did infer that you were advocating a John Hienz-Kerrey socialist type of taxation. It sounded like you were trying to be like Michael Baldwin. Go back and read your post. Cathy was correct in her thoughts, based on your words not hers. Thanks for clearing it up.

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  2. Joe, I appreciate your participating and providing thought provoking statements. If you know me, I love a lively debate and I never take any comment personally. Please continue with more comments and make suggestions for more thought provoking issues for us to tackle.

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