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The House Committee’s Version of the Education Budget

Posted On Mar 03 2016
By : Trisha Powell Crain
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Tag: FY17 ETF budget

House W&ME ETF Budget ProposalThe Alabama House Ways and Means Education committee gave a favorable report to its version of the Education Trust Fund budget yesterday. It approved a package of bills, including the actual budget, a pay raise bill, and additional ordinary appropriation bills.

Lots of news folks provided good coverage, including the Montgomery Advertiser, al.com, and the Associated Press.

While the education budget still has a long way to go, we are keeping up with the evolution of the budget in a spreadsheet, seen below.

The full House could consider the budget as early as next week.

House members have said they hope to approve both the Education and General Fund budgets before spring break (the last week of March).

Takeaways:

  • 4% raise for public education (certificated and support) employees making less than $75,000
  • 2% raise for public education (certificated and support) employees making $75,000 or more
  • 4% raise for all community college personnel
  • Divisors were adjusted downward for grades 7 through 12, which means an additional 475 teachers can be hired for those grades. (Details below.)
  • Classroom instructional support stands at $659.84 per unit. (Details below.)
  • Textbook allocation stands at $54.07 per student.

A few tables to consider.

First, the split between K-12, higher education, and “other” allocations.

CategoryFY15 ActualFY16 BudgetedFY17 Governor's RecommendedFY17 House W&ME Reported
K-1269.15%69.36%68.97%69.27%
Higher Ed25.12%25.52%25.74%25.10%
Other5.74%5.12%5.29%5.63%

Next, a look at classroom divisors. Note that divisors are not the same thing as class size. Divisors are used in the state Foundation Program to calculate the number of teacher units allocated to each school. Basically, you take the number of children in the grade range for each district, then divide that number of children by the divisor to determine how many state-funded teacher units will be funded.

Here’s a great primer on how state Foundation Program funding works.

Grade Span2015-2016 actual2016-2017 ALSDE Requested2016-2017 Governor Recommended2016-2017 House W&ME Reported
K-314.2513.8014.1014.25
4-621.8521.4021.7021.85
7-820.2020.1020.1719.70
9-1218.4518.0018.3017.95

Here’s a look at classroom instructional support, mostly allocated by teacher unit. Textbook allocations are awarded per student.

CategoryFY16 AppropriationFY17 ALSDE RequestFY17 Governor RecommendedFY17 House W&ME Reported
Student Materials (per unit)$373.79$525.00$424.19$405.45
Technology (per unit)63.79350.00159.19169.34
Library Enhancement (per unit)21.26200.0080.8421.26
Professional Development (per unit)63.7990.0072.5363.79
Common Purchase (per unit)0.00200.0066.670.00
TOTAL CLASSROOM SUPPORT (per unit)$522.63$1365.00$803.42$659.84
Textbooks (per student)$52.71$75.00$60.14$54.07

Finally, here’s a look at the state minimum salary schedule with the 4% raise incorporated. Here’s the current state minimum salary schedule. 

Years Experience BS MS 6Y DO ND
Less than 3 $38,342 $44,091 $47,543 $50,993 $38,342
3 but less than 6 42,173 48,499 52,294 56,092 42,173
6 but less than 9 44,020 50,622 54,599 58,547 44,020
9 but less than 12 44,610 51,302 55,319 59,333 44,610
12 but less than 15 45,421 52,232 56,321 60,412 45,421
15 but less than 18 46,457 53,426 57,607 61,785 46,457
18 but less than 21 47,057 54,113 58,349 62,586 47,057
21 but less than 24 47,658 54,807 59,095 53,385 47,658
24 but less than 27 48,225 55,375 59,665 53,954 48,225
27 or more 48,794 55,944 60,233 64,522 48,794

And here’s the spreadsheet of all of the figures we are tracking. Download the full spreadsheet here. Remember, this is a work in progress.

These numbers are compiled from the Alabama State Department of Education’s budget presentation and from Alabama Legislative Office Budget Spreadsheets.

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