Are You Watching Your Money

10/25/2018

If you live in USD 500 then the largest part of your tax dollar is going to schools. Thank you for supporting education in your neighborhood. But are you watching those who are watching that money? Can you name the members of the USD500 School Board charged with managing your funds? Here is a picture from the UG Budget Department showing how one tax dollar is spent. And, accepting that the KCK and WYCO totals together are more than USD 500 (they also do fire and police payments), it may be startling for you to see that USD 500 is the largest single recipient of your money.....Together we can make sure it is being handled appropriately.

3 Comments

Concerned

10/27/2018 12:24:16 pm

Well, the UG is 47%, so I wouldn't really say the district is the largest portion.

use your thinking skills please

10/31/2018 08:06:45 am

So this is only on the facebook page and not here - but the comment about the district not giving kids books? Your tax money in this district provides every high school student an apple Macbook for a small insurance fee or community service hours. They can take these computers home to help bridge the digital divide between low and high income areas. This has been happening for over a decade now.
Both those referenced books are available ONLINE for free. Students could download and save to their laptop during school hours.

Its a sad day when TEACHERS and parents spread news making it sound like some evil entity "the district" won't give them stuff they need to teach. There are so many issues we have to deal with that time and money could be better spent on.
A quick google search turns up multiple sites - here is a small sample from the top.

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/plays/macbethscenes.html

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/f/fitzgerald/f_scott/gatsby/chapter9.html
https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/the-great-gatsby.pdf

use your thinking skills please

10/31/2018 03:49:53 pm

Here is a graphic from the city showing that KCKPS has the littlest amount of their taxes from each dollar going to the school district. Every other district in Wyandotte County has higher school taxes than KCK but people always say this one is the worse.

https://www.wycokck.org/WycoKCK/media/Public-Relations/Documents/Newsletter/2018-Citizen-Newsletter-Summer.pdf

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