School Supplies on a Budget

Autor/in	Dyrli, Kurt O.
Titel	School Supplies on a Budget
Quelle	In: District Administration, 44 (2008) 8, S.25-28 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1537-5749
Schlagwörter	Taxes; Budgets; Educational Finance; Instructional Materials; Financial Support; School Districts; Fees; Resources + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abgabe; Finanzhaushalt; Bildungsfonds; Lehrmaterial; Lehrmittel; Unterrichtsmedien; Finanzielle Förderung; School district; Schulbezirk; Gebühren; Studiengebühren; Betriebsmittel; Hilfsmittel
Abstract	This article reports on the challenge that parents, teachers, and district administrators face in continuing to provide essential school supplies to their students despite budget cuts. At the Verona Area (Wisconsin) School District, administrators, teachers, and parents have recently faced this common challenge. Increasingly dependent on funding from parents, the district has raised dozens of school fees for various student activities and added many items to the required school supply lists sent home every year. While many parents are asked to buy more school supplies than ever, the costs of supplies also continue to increase with inflation. As a result, national back-to-school consumer spending has increased significantly, reaching $18.4 billion in 2007, up from $17.6 billion in 2006 and $13.4 billion in 2005, according to the National Retail Federation. To provide relief for consumers dealing with increasing back-to-school expenses, 14 state governments have suspended the sales tax on school supplies in July or August, including New York, Michigan, and Tennessee, while other states, including Oklahoma and Illinois, are in the process of approving similar measures. Some districts, however, have been able to resist the trend by shortening their lists, if and when their budgets allow. These districts have shortened their supply lists and now pay for many supplies that the districts once asked parents to provide. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10