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Education Finance & Policy Briefing

Education Finance & Policy Briefing. Presented to: State Budget Trends Commission Presented by: Chas Anderson Deputy Education Commissioner May 27, 2008. Topics for Discussion. School Finance Pupil Counts and Trends Cost Drivers Teacher Demographic Data Focus on Teacher Quality.

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Education Finance & Policy Briefing

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  1. Education Finance & Policy Briefing Presented to: State Budget Trends Commission Presented by: Chas Anderson Deputy Education Commissioner May 27, 2008

  2. Topics for Discussion • School Finance • Pupil Counts and Trends • Cost Drivers • Teacher Demographic Data • Focus on Teacher Quality

  3. Percent Change in Adjusted Pupil Counts

  4. State Pupil Counts (K-12) Fiscal Year Pupil Counts FY 2004 829,832 FY 2009 827,215 FY 2014 854,420 FY 2015 863,083 FY 2016 871,128 FY 2017 878,987 FY 2018 885,909 FY 2019 892,045 FY 2020 896,859

  5. Percent Change in Adjusted Pupil Counts

  6. Free & Reduced Lunch Student Counts (PK-12) Year PK-12 Enrollment PK-12 FRL %___ 93-94 810,092 197,669 24.4% 03-04 842,915 238,371 28.3% 07-08 837,578 264,910 31.6% 13-14 865,416 287,815 33.3% 20-21 908,401 311,977 34.3%

  7. State Share of State-Local Tax Revenue

  8. State Share of State-Local Tax Revenue

  9. K-12 Education General Fund Expenditures by Program, FY 2001

  10. K-12 Education General Fund Expenditures by Program, FY 2006

  11. PERCENT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS & CHARTER SCHOOLS WITH NEGATIVE UNRESERVED GEN FUND BALANCES AND IN SOD 20.0% 17.6% 18.0% 16.7% 16.0% 13.4% 14.0% 12.0% 9.3% 10.0% 10.9% 9.7% 7.0% 8.0% 8.2% 6.5% 7.5% 6.0% 5.8% 5.5% 5.0% 4.1% 4.0% 2.0% 0.0% 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Negative Unreserved Gen Fund Bal In SOD Negative Unreserved General Fund & Statutory Operating Debt

  12. Pupil – Teacher Ratios, 1996-2007 22.0 21.0 20.5 20.0 19.3 19.3 19.3 19.2 19.0 19.4 18.3 19.2 19.2 19.2 18.8 18.0 18.3 16.5 17.0 16.0 16.1 17.1 15.9 15.7 16.0 15.6 16.1 16.2 16.1 16.1 15.0 15.2 14.0 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Fiscal Year Including Special Educ Excluding Special Educ

  13. FY 2009 General Fund Revenue Per ADM

  14. Selected Cost Drivers • Collective Bargaining Issues • Cost of health insurance (global issue) • Cost of retiree benefits • State statutes (PELRA, January 15th deadline, etc.) • Teacher contracts (teacher transfer rules, etc.) • Rule of 90 for Tier II (teachers hired after September 1, 1989) • Special Education • About 13% of student population with varying degree of complexities • One-third of special education population does not attend resident district (open enrollment) • State cost-based formula is complex and drives up costs • State and federal mandates may contribute to costs

  15. SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING • $329.5 Million increase in Special Education Aid for the FY 08-09 Biennium • Regular Sp Ed aid increased by 27.5% for FY 08 and an additional 3.8% for FY 09 • Excess cost aid increased by 5.2% in FY 08 – no additional increase in FY 09 • Projected cross subsidy reduced from $537 M in FY 2007 to $435 M in FY 08 and $472 M in FY 09

  16. SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDINGEst. Statewide Adjustment Factors(Proration) Sp Ed Regular Excess Cost FY 2008 88.3% 81.4% FY 2009 87.5 72.6 FY 2010 85.2 60.8 FY 2011 86.6 58.8

  17. SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDINGCap Gap - Cost to Eliminate Proration100% Aid Entitlement Basis FY 2008 $61 million FY 2009 $80 million FY 2010 $117 million FY 2011 $121 million

  18. Focus on Teacher Quality and Human Capital Effective teachers increase student achievement and close the achievement gap Sample of Teacher Effectiveness Studies: • Dr. Marzano found that effective teachers had a 43 percent positive impact on student achievement, the highest school-based factor. By comparison, class size only had an 8 percent positive impact (Marzano, 2003). • Data and studies from Tennessee showed that if two average eight-year-old students were given different teachers – one of them a high performer, the other a low performer – the students’ performance diverge more than 50 percentile points within three years (Sanders, 1998). • Dallas study found that the performance gap between students assigned three effective teachers in a row, and those assigned three ineffective teachers in a row, was 49 percentile points (McKinsey, 2007).

  19. K-12 Education Budget: Focus on Teacher Quality Why Focus on Teacher Quality? Minnesota is facing a critical shortage of teachers. Almost one-half of the teaching profession in Minnesota is projected to retire over the next 10-15 years.

  20. K-12 Education Budget: Focus on Teacher Quality Three strategies to increasing the supply of highly effective teachers • Re-train the existing teaching workforce • Recruit best and brightest into teaching profession • Retain effective teachers

  21. State Initiatives: Investing in Teacher Quality and School Leaders • Q Comp (compensation, teacher training and professional development, mentoring and teacher evaluations) • Math & Science Teacher Academies • Alternative Pathways to Certification (Teach for America, Teaching Fellows, Portfolio) • Teacher Induction / Mentoring • Principal Institute for Leadership (University of Minnesota)

  22. Contact Information Chas Anderson Deputy Education Commissioner 651-582-8207 (work) chas.anderson@state.mn.us Tom Melcher Director, Program Finance 651-582-8828 (work) tom.melcher@state.mn.us Website: www.education.state.mn.us

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