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The myth of common infrastructure is a common theme in schools. Our own district “regionalized” across three towns to get those infrastructure savings. They w
by Scubabear68 3y ago
The myth of common infrastructure is a common theme in schools. Our own district “regionalized” across three towns to get those infrastructure savings.
They were non-existent.
The reality, in NJ at least, is that a school’s budget will balloon to the maximum size legally allowed, and expand from there forever. On occasions when stupid BOE’s back themselves into a corner, they rook the residents into a referendum to get a zillion dollar bond.
The common theme in public schools is: mandatory funding via taxation, and no accountability at all.
- simfree 3y agoThat is not true when your looking at IT infrastructure, connecting to the state K-12 network, qualifying for connectivity grants, etc. The cost to do this for an individual school is much greater than spreading these primarily fixed over many schools.
- Scubabear68 3y agoI am not sure what a “state k-12 network” is. I don’t think such a thing exists in NJ. I have looked at our budgets, IT is almost a rounding error out of the $25 million/year. Most of the “synergy” of combining schools is supposed to come out of reduced administrative personnel. Except that never happen. Quite the opposite - administration swells and the combined regional district ends up costing more.