General Information

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General Information

• 180 School Systems (159 County/21 City)
• Approximately 2,069 Schools
• Elementary - 1257
• Middle - 429
• High - 373
• K-12 - 10
• Full-Time Equivalent Students 1,528,098
• Certificated Personnel 114,000
• Other
• Pending Lawsuit
• Governors Education Finance Task Force (Weights
  Task Force)
• Adequacy vs. Equity

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State Expenditures
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QBE Funding Formula

• Enacted in 1985
• Quality Basic Education Formula - 7.01 Billion
  (With 6.3 Billion dedicated to salaries 90.4)
• Full-Time Equivalent Students 1,528,098
• State QBE Funds 80.0
• Local Five Mill Share 20.0
• Overall Education State 52 Local 48
• Unrestored Austerity Reductions Approximately
• 370 Million
• Expenditure Controls

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QBE Formula Total

• Full-Time Equivalent Student Count By Program
• X
• Program Cost Per Full-Time Equivalent Student
• QBE Cost for Programs
• (Total Calculations for All 19 Programs Summed)
• Training and Experience
• QBE TOTAL

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FTE Student Count

• Full-Time Equivalent Student
• One FTE Six Segments (Periods)
• Fall Count in October
• Spring Count in March
• Funding Count
• ((Fall Count X 2) (Projected Spring Count))/3
• Same Count Used for Midterm/Amended and Original
  Budget

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Full-Time Equivalent Students
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QBE Programs (19)

• Kindergarten
• Kindergarten EIP
• Grades 1-3
• Grades 1-3 EIP
• Grades 4-5
• Grades 4-5 EIP
• Grades 6-8 Middle Grades
• Grades 6-8 Middle School
• Grades 9-12
• Vocational Laboratories

• Special Education I
• Special Education II
• Special Education III
• Special Education IV
• Special Education V
• Gifted
• Remedial
• Limited-English Speaking
• Alternative Education

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QBE Programs Funding Class Size
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QBE Other Staffing Ratios

• Elementary Middle High
• Base Size School 450 624
  970
• Paraprofessionals (K-Only) 18
• Art/Music/PE/Foreign (1-8) 345
  345
• Counselors 462 624
  400
• Psychologists 2,475
  2,475 2,475
• Social Workers 2,475 2,475
  2,475
• Technology Specialists 1,100
  1,100 1,100
• Media Specialist 450 624
  970
• Assistant Principal 450/2
  624 485

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QBE Formula Calculations (Kindergarten)

• Direct Instruction
• Teacher 38,043.60 / 15 2,536.24
• Paraprofessional 38,043.60 / 3 / 18
  704.51
• Counselor 37,893.60 / 462 82.02
• Technology Specialist 37,893.60 / 1100
  34.45
• Operations 62.76
• Indirect Instruction
• Psychologist (CA) 37,893.60 / 2475
  15.31
• Operations (CA) 15.39
• Assistant Principal (SA) 37,893.60 / 2 /
  450 42.10
• Secretary (SA) 15,474.94 / 450 34.39
• Social Worker 37,893.60 / 2475 15.31
• Operations (SA) 7.84
• Maintenance and Operations 298.00
• Staff Development 1.0 of Cert. Salaries
  22.42
• Additional Instruction 37,893.60/190/1520/10.
  95 25.50
• Media 37,893.60 / 450 84.21
• Media Materials 9.77

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QBE Programs FTE Funding
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Training and Experience

• QBE Formula Initially Assumes All Teachers Are
  Beginning Teachers (38,043)
• Actual Teacher Salary Varies Based on Years of
  Experience and Degree
• Bottom Line Adjustment to Reflect Actual State
  Salary
• 1.9 Billion Total TE

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Training and Experience
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QBE Formula Total

• Full-Time Equivalent Student Count By Program
• X
• Program Cost Per Full-Time Equivalent Student
• QBE Cost for Programs
• (Total Calculations for All 19 Programs Summed)
• Training and Experience
• QBE TOTAL

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Local Five Mill Share

• Required Local Effort
• LFMS Considered Buy-In for QBE
• Five Mills of Tax on the Equalized Adjusted
  Property Tax Digest
• 1.335 Billion in Local Funds for QBE
• 80 - 20 Requirement (Statewide)
• Variation in LFMS By System
• Equalizing Effect

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LFMS Calculation

• (100 Equalized Adjusted Property Tax Digest)
• X
• 40
• -
• (Agricultural, Homestead, Veteran, Age 65
  Exemptions)
• X
• .005
• Local Five Mill Share

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LFMS and QBE Earnings

• QBE Formula Calculation
• -
• Local Five Mill Share
• State QBE Formula Earnings

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Local Five Mill Share
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Equalization

• Equity Breakdown After Local Five Mill Share
• Program to Narrow Gap (Per Pupil) Between School
  Systems
• 371.7 Million in State Funds
• Based on Taxable Property Wealth Per Student
• Ranking of Systems
• Guaranteed Valuation System (75th Percentile)
• Distribution of Funds (Gap/Millage/FTEs)

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Equalization Calculation
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Other Non-QBE Grants

• Pupil Transportation - 158 Million
• School Lunch (State) - 36 Million
• School Nurses - 30 Million (Tobacco)
• Other State Grants
• Sparsity Grants
• Special Education Low Incidence
• Migrant Education