Funding Education

[dbacks fan]

BOT, And please no one bite my  head off on this, wasn't the lottery supposed to be a big funder of education? I know that here in AZ that was always the premise, but the voters here just passed a $.01 sales tax increase for three years to "help fund education" at least 2/3rds towards education.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2010/05/19/20100519salestax-electionday0519.html

[dbacks fan]

Correct.  I lived behind the Vegas Club (and actually live there again) during that flood.  Mingo Creek from 11th to Admiral used to look like a jungle and was VERY narrow.  Best thing they ever did was to dredge it out and create all the retention ponds throughout that watershed.

My parents when they bought that home were required to carry flood insurance.  After the flood management was completed and proved that it mitigated the worst of it, they were no longer required to carry it.

Several people that I went to school with lost their's to the flood and widening through the 21st/31st, Memorial/Mingo Road sq mile area. I remember that COT was proud of the fact that their widening project had reduced flooding in that corridor. A friend of the family actually got paid twice for his house near Skelly Jr High. Collected on the flood insurance for repairs, and then was bought by the city for removal.

[TURobY]

BOT, And please no one bite my  head off on this, wasn't the lottery supposed to be a big funder of education?

This gives some very good insight into the lottery's relationship with Tulsa Public Schools:
http://www.tulsaschools.org/pi/more_100407.shtm

From the article:

According to law, 35 percent of the lottery's proceeds are allocated to education. (The allocation was 30 percent for the lottery's first two years.)

For Tulsa Public Schools, the reality is that lottery funds in 2009 amounted to $2 million dollars —less than half of one percent of the district's annual budget.

[dbacks fan]

This gives some very good insight into the lottery's relationship with Tulsa Public Schools:
http://www.tulsaschools.org/pi/more_100407.shtm

From the article:

Thanks, that is similar to what we have here. I have found an article from the Gila Indian tribe in which it describes that after passage of Prop 202 in 2002 17 of the tribes in the state would each share 8% of their respective revenue with the State of AZ, in return no other tribes would be allowed to build casinos (not new, but replacing old ones) for 23 years. A large portion of that 8% was earmarked for, wait for it.............

education.

http://www.gilariver.org/index.php/news/106-march-2010-grin/996-dont-break-promise-of-02-gaming-pact

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Arizona_Proposition_202_(2002)


http://www.keepingthepromiseaz.com/faqs/

[shadows]

Fixed that for ya. The flooding in '86 was along the river, not Mingo Creek. They were well into the building of retention basins and widening Mingo in '86 from the Admiral Mingo traffic circle down to the BA and 169.

Right it was the flood of '84.  Am not aware of any storage for flood water constructed after that last 100 year flood.  Most of the work was done after the 100 year floods in '74, '76 and before the flood of '84.  I stand corrected as the flood on the Keystone caused by the miscalculation of rainfall over that water shed caused the opening of the gates and abandoning of flood control.

In the school system we have produced another non performing bureaucracy demanding greater salaries and working conditions, side stepping the intent of Jefferson's public school system.  Now the cute little kitten has grown into a full grown Lion that demands more feed each day.  As we follow in the foot steps of  Athens and Rome we are seeking for government's, local and national, to pick up the tab.   We have used the paper currency, that is without backing, to bring down the American empire. The resource are available to booster education but we no longer want to distribute the jobs available to accomplish this.  Instead we look to government to create jobs and fund them with paper barter of exchange which is being used to buy up our final resources.  Foreign interest are buy our homes and lands.   

[waterboy]

They can buy mine.