7 Responses to “School District Spending Report”

1. baparralryfal says:

   July 6, 2009 at 3:50 pm

   Nice blog! Very interesting aspects. I will regularly read it. Also e-mailed on rss.
2. Lewis Barnavelt says:

   July 7, 2009 at 12:22 pm

   I disagree with this spending information. A better way to calculate the average spending per student is to divide district budgets by the number of students it serves. You get nearly half the amount that this report is claiming.

   I think that the Utah Taxpayer Association needs to provide the raw data used in calculating their numbers rather than relying on statistics that have already been massaged by other government agencies and then merging them in an unknown and overly complicated manner.
3. admin says:

   July 7, 2009 at 2:02 pm

   All of the data used in our annual School District Spending Report is provided by school districts and the State Office of Education. Anyone can collect that information, and produce their own report. However, it would be terribly unwieldy to simply publish raw data, and hope that the public, the media or policy makers can make sense of it.
4. Rosanne says:

   August 3, 2009 at 12:00 am

   I’m a Texan, who was recently having a conversation with a person who moved here from Utah. She was commenting that she never had to pay for school supplies for her children in Utah and suggested that Texas should do the same. Can you point me to an article or website that shows how Utah school systems pay for student’s supplies?
5. admin says:

   August 3, 2009 at 9:03 am

   I’m not sure what you mean by school supplies. Utah parents do purchase notebooks, pens, pencils, etc. for their children, whether they are in public schools or not. They also pay for lab fees, though low-income parents can receive fee waivers. Beyond that, I’d need more information about what kind of school supplies you are referring to.
6. MA says:

   August 13, 2009 at 6:17 pm

   The average salary for teachers at $62K is not a true number. It takes 20 years for a 4-year degreed teacher to arrive at $52K. Salary averages are erroneous calculations because they include the ridiculous $237,000 from the superintendent. Teachers salaries should be just that: #of classroom teachers and should not include the value of benefits to be averaged out. Misleading at best.
7. It's not salary... says:

   October 23, 2009 at 7:18 am

   Re: MA
   The average compensation figure is not average salary. That figure includes money spent on insurance, etc. The average salaries are never published by districts. It’s a way to make things seem cheery because insurance is a huge expense for districts.

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