CUMMING, Ga. â A silver lining in the COVID-19 disruption is an increase in local tax revenues flowing into the Forsyth County School System as it deals with an increasing number of students and an ambitious construction program.
âWe re going to end up this current year better off than we thought,â said Larry Hammel, chief financial officer for the district. âAnd we re planning for even a bigger increase in local revenue come next year.â
The fiscal year 2022 budget which began July 1 is right at $520.1 million, up 5 percent from last year. Revenues are also up nearly 8 percent from FY21.
Local tax revenue makes up about 52 percent of the budget. For FY22 local revenues rose more than $20 million from last year.
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Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools supports bipartisan legislation allowing it to begin the school year one to two weeks earlier than currently allowed by state law.
However, with many summer-school initiatives already set in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the system said Thursday it would not move up the start date of Aug. 23 for the 2021-22 school year.
House Bill 111 would open WS/FCS schools on Aug. 11.
WS/FCS said in a statement that senior leadership believes House Bill 111 âcould be good in the future.â
âAn earlier start time would allow semesters to end before the winter break, so it may be very beneficial.â
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N.C. legislators have submitted a slew of partisan and bipartisan bills with the common goal of allowing public school districts to begin the school year one to two weeks earlier in August.
Faced again with stiff opposition from the stateâs tourism lobby, school calendar flexibility proponents may get a boost from the COVID-19 pandemicâs impact on in-classroom attendance.
âEverybody is in agreement that our kids have suffered with schools being closed,â said Rep. Jeff Zenger, R-Forsyth, and co-sponsor of bipartisan House Bill 111 that would open schools on Aug. 11.
Senate Bill 166, sponsored by Sen. Joyce Krawiec, R-Forsyth, would open Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools and Davie County Schools on Aug. 10.