Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Carlsbad Schools Budget Change
An interesting note in an article published today in the North County Times. Because the Carlsbad Unified School District is now bringing in more money from property taxes, it will be designated as a ‘basic-aid’ district.
"In the past, allowing students to transfer into Carlsbad schools from outside brought more money for the district. As a basic aid district, that will no longer be the case because the amount of money coming in will be based on property taxes instead of attendance."
"Because of this, the district may begin to reject requests from parents to transfer their students into Carlsbad Unified schools, Superintendent John Roach said Wednesday."
How many home buyers have purchased homes in Rancho Carrillo, San Elijo Hills, or Oceanside who hoped to transfer their kids into the Carlsbad school district?
How long will property taxes be the determining factor – will there come a day when it changes back? The assessor’s office is buried with requests from homeowners looking to lower their tax value, will that be enough to change the school’s income back to per-pupil basis?
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The article didn’t say that for sure we will become "Basic Aid" but it is possibly heading that way. They won’t know until all the tax receipts come in. But Cardiff, Solana Beach, etc. don’t have the cutbacks that we are facing, with fantastic and awesome teachers being fired and class sizes going up. So I’d rather be basic aid at this point. If the receipts change, then fine, they can always go back to per-pupil.
mymyselfandI | May 29th, 2008 at 10:55 pmAnd sorry — I don’t feel sorry for Rancho Carrillo, San Elijo Hills, or O’side people — they knew when they moved in that they were NOT in the CUSD (other than the O’side folks who come to Calavera Hills and their property taxes go to CUSD too).
Excuse my for my ignorance, I have no kids of my own, but why would a SEH resident wish to transfer their kids to a Carlsbad school? The San Elijo Schools are so close and highly ranked. I was under the assumption that the SEH schools were one the reasons people chose to live in SEH in the first place…?
SEH Resident | May 30th, 2008 at 2:12 amProp taxes may be getting reduced, but let’s remember how insanely rapidly they rose in the first place. So collections are still far far above where they’d been under "normal" times (e.g., without the housing rally).
Aztec | May 30th, 2008 at 1:53 pmSan Elijo elementary and middle schools are great, but then the kids go to San Marcos High. Which, mind you, gets a rating of 8 out of 10, but I guess still scares a lot of folks on a gut level, because of where it is located.
Simone | May 30th, 2008 at 5:57 pmI think they are planning on building a new SEH high school at some point. San Marcos High isn’t that bad and I think they have high test scores.
SEH Resident | May 30th, 2008 at 11:24 pm