Indiana’s public schools continue to produce strong academic results while spending considerably less per student than the national average. That raises an important question: How long can schools sustain those results when revenues do not keep pace with operating costs and employee compensation?
For Rossville Consolidated School District, one number illustrates the challenge: $40,000.
That is about how much additional revenue the district is projected to receive. Rossville employs about 118 people. If every dollar of that increase went exclusively toward employee compensation, it would equal only about $339 per employee for the entire year, before additional employer benefit costs…