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Pupil Transportation Funding

Pupil Transportation Funding. Derek Graham, Section Chief Transportation Services North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction. Allotments for School Transportation. NC Department of Public Instruction, Division of School Support, Transportation Services

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Pupil Transportation Funding

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  1. Pupil TransportationFunding Derek Graham, Section Chief Transportation Services North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction

  2. Allotments for School Transportation • NC Department of Public Instruction, Division of School Support, Transportation Services • Charged with equitably distributing funds to 117 LEAs for operation of a safe, efficient school bus transportation system • Separate appropriation for replacing school buses

  3. Pupil Transportation Funding: A Little History • Property and Cost Clerks • Allotted for 12 months based on a formula considering the number of buses • Mechanics, Directors, Supervisors and Foremen • Allotted for 12 months based on a formula considering the number of buses • Contracts: Reimbursed for actual expenses • Fuel, tires,parts, etc. reimbursed for actual expenses

  4. 1989 Legislative Action • SB 44, Sec. 55 • “The Department of Public Instruction shall implement the Pupil Transportation Operational Study authorized by Section 94 of Chapter 1086 of the 1987 Session Laws, The State Board of Education shall allocate up to $400,000 of the funds appropriated for the 1989-90 fiscal year for aid to local school administrative units for pupil transportation to implement the findings of this study. The Department shall also report its final recommendations for achieving improved efficiency and economy in the pupil transportation system to the 1990 Session of the General Assembly. These recommendations shlal included incentives for encouraging cost-effective operations in local school administrative units, as provided in GS 115C-240(e) and GS 115C-246(a).

  5. Ernst & Young Study Results - Jan. 1991 • Allot funds in a way that will provide incentives for the LEAs to provide pupil transportation service as efficiently as possible. • Structure the funding process to maximize the LEAs’ discretion in deciding how pupil transportation objectives are to be met and to hold them accountable for the results of those decisions relative to meeting the dual objectives of service quality and economy. • Provide information that helps each LEA to identify the source of any inefficiencies.

  6. Block Grant Allotments:Eliminated Line Item Allotments Fuel Salaries Tires/Repair Parts Flexibility to Use Funds where needed Block Grant based on a Budget Rating Expenditures Students Transported Buses Operated Budget Rating is an indication of Efficiency Accountability Local Control

  7. Transportation Funding:Step by Step 1. Determine Funding Base 2. Determine Budget Rating 3. Multiply (1) x (2) and Adjust

  8. Step 1: Determine Funding Base(Previous Years’ Eligible Expenditures) • All State Expenditures except for equipment line items • All Local Expenditures corresponding to a state object code, except equipment • Exceptions: • Salaries in excess of the state maximum • Salary bonuses

  9. All State Expenditures except for equipment line items • All Local Expenditures corresponding to a state object code, except equipment • Legislative appropriation assumes allotment growth consistent with enrollment growth plus legislated increased (salary increases, etc) • A few counties are capped each year due to expenses that increased beyond these projections

  10. Capped Expenses • Does not count “against” the LEA in the calculation of budget ratings. • Does not get included in the funding base carried forward to the next year.

  11. Step 2: Determine Budget Rating • Inputs: Expenditures, Students Transported, Buses Operated • Adjustments for Site Characteristics • Avg. Distance from School; Street Network • Pupil Density; Student Clustering • Median Family Income; Seats per Bus

  12. Step 3: Apply Rating to Base Funding and Adjust • Multiply Budget Rating By Base Funding (Step 1). • Add funding for (positive) growth in students transported • Adjust for Legislated Increases

  13. Determining the Ratings • Calculate the cost per student transported for each county • Calculate the # buses operated per 100 students transported for each county • Use Linear Regression to make sure that there is nothing beyond the county’s control that unfairly penalizes them: Site Characteristics

  14. FactorEfficiencies - Step 1 350 A 300 M Y Cost Eff = XL / XA 250 Bus Eff = YM / YA 200 L Expenditures per Adjusted Student 150 100 Combined Eff = AVG(Bus Eff, Cost Eff) 50 O X 0 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Buses per 100 Adjusted Students

  15. Factor Efficiencies - Step 2 350 300 250 • A B 200 Overall EfficiencyA = Combined EfficiencyA Average Combined EfficienciesF (F=Frontier Points) C Expenditures per Adjusted Student 150 D 100 50 O 0 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 Buses per 100 Adjusted Students

  16. Leveling the Playing Field: Consider Site Characteristics Beyond the Control of the LEA Pupil Density (Students Transported per Mile of Road Distance of Students to School Circuity % EC Students

  17. Unadjusted Bus Efficiency Buses - 3rd Quartile Distance to School 14 12 10 8 3Quart Dist Linear (3Quart Dist) 3rd Quart. Dist. 6 R = 0.3781 2 4 2 0 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 Unadjuested Bus Efficiency

  18. Bus Efficiency Adjusted for Distance to School 3rd Quartile Bus Efficiency Adjusted for Distance 3rd Quartile 14 12 10 8 3Quart Dist R = 3E-05 2 Distnace to School 3rd Quartile Linear (3Quart Dist) 6 4 2 0 0 20 40 60 80 100 Bus Efficiency

  19. Site Characteristics

  20. Pupil TransportationFunding Derek Graham, Section Chief Transportation Services North Carolina Dept. of Public Instruction

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