Civic · 6 pages · 12 min
How a school board spends a local tax
An elected school board turns a local school tax into an adopted district budget.
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From the opening
A local school tax, often a property tax, is money the law assigns to a school district rather than a pile the board may invent. The board's spending act is the adoption of a budget that appropriates that money, together with state aid and other receipts, to named purposes. The opening covers levy dollars enter a budget, appropriations name the purposes, and state aid comes with strings.
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Inside
- Levy dollars enter a budget
- Appropriations name the purposes
- State aid comes with strings
- Bonds are a separate ask
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- School district property tax levy
- School board budget appropriation