{"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":"<p>Dr. Troy Davis spelled out where we are financially in the school systems,<br \/>\nand what consolidation would do to that: it would raise taxes and reduce services.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLA020153D53E1FEF4\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/pyaXbZDCZPQ\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nHe took CUEE&#8217;s own figures for how much more consolidation would require<br \/>\nto be spent per each Valdosta City school student, and demonstrated that<br \/>\nnot only would that require raising taxes for both Valdosta and Lowndes<br \/>\nCounty residents to near the state-capped maximum of 21 mils, but even<br \/>\nthen there is no way enough tax revenue would be generated to pay for all<br \/>\nthe things CUEE proposes to do after consolidation, and probably not even<br \/>\nenough taxes to continue employing all the teachers currently employed<br \/>\nby the two school systems. Oh, plus consolidation would lose state and<br \/>\nfederal grant money by increasing the composite school system size, so the<br \/>\nlocal taxpayers would have to make up that slack, too.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere are <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.lowndes.k12.ga.us\/education\/components\/layout\/default.php?sectiondetailid=28537\">his<br \/>\nslides.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nHere is <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLA020153D53E1FEF4\"><br \/>\na playlist.<\/a><\/p>\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><\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. He took CUEE&#8217;s own figures for how much more consolidation would require to be spent per each Valdosta City school student, and demonstrated that not only would that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,40,1376,14,15,49,2,19,1105,3458,3,1106],"tags":[3461,3460,1636,2486,8701,10,8702,8815,12,7,1620,383,1915,6,3459],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-community","category-cuee","category-economy","category-education","category-elections","category-government","category-history","category-lcboe","category-lcboe-4-october-2011","category-transparency","category-vboe","tag-4-october-2011","tag-community-forum","tag-consolidation","tag-finances","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lcboe","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-board-of-education","tag-taxes","tag-troy-davis","tag-valdosta","tag-why-we-oppose-consolidation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}