The Forsyth County School System opened the 2021-22 school year Aug. 9 with more than 90 percent of students opting for face-to-face instruction within the district’s 40 school buildings.
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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CUMMING, Ga. â Officials with Forsyth County Schools are questioning a formula for federal stimulus funds they say is lopsided and unfairly penalizes the district based on the makeup of its student population.
Georgiaâs public schools have received nearly $6 billion in federal stimulus funds in the past year aimed at helping K-12 schools respond and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The school-based funding has been included in three separate stimulus bills approved by Congress over the past year.
The first two rounds under then-President Donald Trump were referred to as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act; the second under President Joe Biden were included in the recently-approved American Rescue Plan.
Georgia District Looks for Learning Management System; Louisiana District Buying School Supplies
Learning management system, pre-packaged school supplies. The Forsyth County School System in Georgia is interested in potentially buying a learning management system, while the Bryan Independent School District in Texas is looking for art supplies. The Calcasieu Parish Public Schools in Louisiana has issued a bid for pre-packaged school supplies under the federally funded McKinney-Vento…
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