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Aug 12, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Important to know that paying the full costs of busing kids to & from school is a state responsibility under law. But it's one the legislature has skipped since 2005. Despite billions now in the rainy day fund, the state still pays only 70% of these costs in the current budget. Image
The numbers in the graph mean this: if the state had been fulfilling its responsibility to fund transportation, JCPS would've had 82% more state dollars over the last three years dedicated specifically to hiring and retaining bus drivers, and 43% more this year.
That would've been especially beneficial because of a severe bus driver shortage. It's difficult to attract drivers when they receive low hourly pay for part-time, part-year work & have to try cobbling together the rest of what it takes to live.
nea.org/nea-today/all-…
Districts like Jefferson have bumped pay and incentives to try to attract drivers, but other full-time, year round alternatives for drivers are increasing pay by much more (Hello UPS Teamsters). The lack of state funds puts limits on what districts can do.
Jefferson Co recently had to revamp its system based on fewer drivers because of the shortage--which led directly to the problems faced last week. https://t.co/oq9pIxZJetcourier-journal.com/story/news/edu…
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The baby boomer retirement is shrinking the workforce, making it more important employers improve pay & working conditions if they want to fill shortages. Doing so with bus drivers requires the state to step up with the $ they should already be providing. kypolicy.org/this-one-weird…

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Jan 28
Federal grant funding in the state budget to Kentucky is $22 billion and includes:
--$15 billion for Medicaid
--$1.8 billion for education including Title 1, school meals $469M, special ed
--$234 million for child care
--$1.24 billion to higher education
--$1.34 billion for transportation
--$302 million for unemployment insurance
--$77 million for vocational rehabilitation
--$59 million for workforce
--$55 million for disability determinations
--$405 million for infrastructure
--$12 million for agriculture
--$35 million for senior services
--$287 million for family and community-based services
--$75 million for low-income energy assistance
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Oct 29, 2024
In one week Kentucky voters will deliver a verdict on Amendment 2, which if passed would allow public dollars to be diverted to private schools. Here’s what you need to know: 👇1/
Amendment 2 gives politicians a blank check to redirect public money to private education. It’s written with no guardrails on what it will cost & how wealthy a household can be to benefit. It’ll allow policies that take $ away from the public schools that serve 90% of KY kids. 2/
A2 suspends 7 sections of the constitution, upending KY’s founding commitment to a system of common schools. It opens the door to vouchers & a pandora’s box of other problems including laws that favor or harm specific school districts: 3/ kypolicy.org/broad-language…
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Feb 8, 2023
Today the Senate is expected to vote on cutting the income tax to 4%. The top rate was 6% from 1936 to 2018. The income tax funds 41% of the state budget, & we've heard of no plan--& no viable options--to replace the enormous lost revenue from continuing to cut it. 1/
The legislature applied the sales tax to about 35 new services last year. But that raises only $1 in revenue for every $12 we lose from reducing the income tax to 4%. 2/
A reduction from 5% to 4% costs $1.2 billion a year. That's more than we spend on higher education, and half of what we spend on Medicaid, which covers 1.5 million Kentuckians. 3/
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Mar 15, 2021
Senate A&R now amending a bill to apparently again make the highly ineffective and expensive film tax credit refundable at a cost of $75 million a year, giving away a massive amount of money on an idea that was never given a public hearing or introduced as a bill. #sewage
In addition, Kentucky will be required to refund federal aid equal to the cost of all tax cuts and tax breaks like the film tax credit because of the new provisions of the American Rescue Plan. A double hit to our budget. #kyga21
kypolicy.org/last-minute-ta…
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Mar 13, 2021
The new budget would bar the governor from spending the $2.4 billion to the state as well as the $185 million for capital projects that support work, education and health (i.e. remote work, telehealth) without the General Assembly's authorization.
Similar language was not included in last year's budget which was enacted after the CARES Act passed. The governor used the Coronavirus Relief Fund from that act throughout the rest of the year to shore up the budget, address the public health crisis, and provide aid.
Here's what the $2.4 billion can be used for: Image
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Apr 30, 2020
NEW interim forecast says state revenues will collapse 18.2%-23.7% this quarter--creating a shortfall of $319- $496 million--and then 10.5%-17.2% the next two quarters of the new fisc year.

Kentucky needs Congress to step in with *much more* in fiscal relief. #statecovidrelief
Corporate taxes projected will fall especially--from 68%-79% this quarter. Sales taxes will fall 18%-20% and individual income taxes 5%-13%. The lottery will drop 32%, property tax 14%, coal severance 46% and other 28%. All massive declines.
Road Fund receipts will also crater, falling 36.8%-55.2% in April-June compared to the prior year. The gas tax will fall 33.6%-52.1% and the usage tax (based on car sales) will fall 52.5%-72.1%. That creates a Road Fund shortfall between $116 million and $195 million this year.
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