{"id":1431,"date":"2011-10-07T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T20:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/consolidation-a-financial-puzzle-dr-troy-davis-lcboe-4-october-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-10-07T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T20:11:07","slug":"consolidation-a-financial-puzzle-dr-troy-davis-lcboe-4-october-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/consolidation-a-financial-puzzle-dr-troy-davis-lcboe-4-october-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Consolidation: A Financial Puzzle &mdash;Dr. Troy Davis @ LCBOE 4 October 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"Dr. Troy Davis spelled out where we are financially in the school systems,\nand what consolidation would do to that: it would raise taxes and reduce services.\n<p>\n<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLA020153D53E1FEF4\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/pyaXbZDCZPQ\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nHe took CUEE&#8217;s own figures for how much more consolidation would require\nto be spent per each Valdosta City school student, and demonstrated that\nnot only would that require raising taxes for both Valdosta and Lowndes\nCounty residents to near the state-capped maximum of 21 mils, but even\nthen there is no way enough tax revenue would be generated to pay for all\nthe things CUEE proposes to do after consolidation, and probably not even\nenough taxes to continue employing all the teachers currently employed\nby the two school systems. Oh, plus consolidation would lose state and\nfederal grant money by increasing the composite school system size, so the\nlocal taxpayers would have to make up that slack, too.\n<p>\nHere are <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.lowndes.k12.ga.us\/education\/components\/layout\/default.php?sectiondetailid=28537\">his\nslides.<\/a>\n<p>\nHere is <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLA020153D53E1FEF4\">\na playlist.<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLA020153D53E1FEF4&amp;hl=en_US\"\nframeborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Troy Davis spelled out where we are financially in the school systems, and what consolidation would do to that: it would raise taxes and reduce services. 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