School districts play a shell game with income. In order to get fed money, they have to comply with fed programs. Same with State. Hence the huge funding for special ed, ESL, immersion programs.
Remember reserves and operation funds are different animals. They are full funded for the day to day payment of teachers, staff, repairs,etc. When the buildings fall down, and there are no reserves, then wha-la, a new bond will pass and all is well again.
Every superintendent feathers their own nest by pitching new bonds, ‘for the children’. Cbad is now pitching prop HH after spending a boatload of money from the last bond about 10 years ago. Not sure if test scores went up after the bond, but there has been a bunch of new construction and renovation.
Cbad is just better at selling bonds. Test scores are still good in SM. Not sure jumping ship would be a net gain.
Plus, maybe the State getting involved is necessary as the current district admin let the reserves fall so low. State will not get involved over this, only major corruption, etc. State control here, I think it is a false flag argument.
If it were me, I would make your decisions on the quality of the actual teachers at your schools. Good schools generally have low turnover in teachers.
