GISD Spending Out-of-Control!

Georgetown ISD, like the City of Georgetown, uses the rhetoric that growth is driving the budget to ever greater heights. But, lets look at the numbers that are important to GISD, the number of enrolled students.

Over the last 5 years, total enrollment in all the GISD schools has been increasing at an annual rate of 2.1%. Hardly an earth shattering growth rate!

Now lets examine the growth in the GISD budget.

The budget has been increasing at a 8.71% annual rate over the past 5 years. This is more than 4 times the rate of student enrollment.

Its time to ask the school board hard questions about the rate of spending increases. Teachers tell us that growth rate is not reflected in their salaries! So, where is the money going? Clearly budget growth rates in excess of 4 times enrollment growth rates are not required to accommodate "growth".

PS: This data is available from the GISD website or the Texas Education Agency TEA.