School systems anxious to get state figures
Capital Weekly, February 15, 2007
(excerpt) Remember that 1980's expression, where's the beef?
Well, that's what superintendents and school committees across Maine are asking as they wait for state school funding figures that are at least two weeks late and probably won't be out for another 10 to 14 days.
The lag means school systems can't plan their budgets for the coming year — budgets that in some cases are due at the end of March or in time for March town meetings.
"The (education) commissioner has yet to release the 2007-2008 subsidy estimates based on her funding level and the governor's budget," Dale Douglass, executive director of the Maine School Management Association, said Sunday.
"We want those figures so people can do their budgets," he said.
Usually the estimates come out by the end of January, with the understanding that they might go up or down depending upon the Legislature's final budget figures.
(excerpt) Remember that 1980's expression, where's the beef?
Well, that's what superintendents and school committees across Maine are asking as they wait for state school funding figures that are at least two weeks late and probably won't be out for another 10 to 14 days.
The lag means school systems can't plan their budgets for the coming year — budgets that in some cases are due at the end of March or in time for March town meetings.
"The (education) commissioner has yet to release the 2007-2008 subsidy estimates based on her funding level and the governor's budget," Dale Douglass, executive director of the Maine School Management Association, said Sunday.
"We want those figures so people can do their budgets," he said.
Usually the estimates come out by the end of January, with the understanding that they might go up or down depending upon the Legislature's final budget figures.
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