{"id":3559,"date":"2010-04-29T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T01:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2010-04-29T20:34:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T01:34:39","slug":"inovista-endowed-chairs-win-over-classroom-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/inovista-endowed-chairs-win-over-classroom-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Inovista, Endowed Chairs win over classroom funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">This morning we passed a Sense of the Senate declaring our commitment to finding ways to get more money to the classroom teachers. There was applause from the balcony as it was full of teachers from across this state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Less than an hour later there was an amendment offered that would send 100\u2019s of millions of dollars to the classroom. Unfortunately, the Senate did not have the opportunity to vote on this amendment because of technical objections while our kids aren\u2019t having their classroom needs met. We weren\u2019t even allowed to vote on the amendment. I\u2019m disappointed that the sense of the Senate resolution seems to be mostly an empty promise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">I offered an amendment transferring $231,777,139 in funds from agencies to EFA (Education Finance Act). The EFA is the funding formula that goes directly to the classroom. Here\u2019s what this amount of funds could do. The average teacher salary including benefits is $58,922. This adds up to 3,933 teachers! The sources included Inovista, Endowed Chairs, and the Budget &amp; Control Board. All of these agencies had more than enough funds to absorb these cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning we passed a Sense of the Senate declaring our commitment to finding ways to get more money to the classroom teachers. There was applause from the balcony as it was full of teachers from across this state. Less than an hour later there was an amendment offered that would send 100\u2019s of millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-Vp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}