Phoenix lawmaker points finger at administrators for dip in classroom spending - Daily Independent

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : But he said these schools don't tend to take students with special needs, students that traditional public schools cannot turn away.
55% : Not only are there fewer school-age children as demographics change, but some of them are choosing to go to charter school or private schools, especially with vouchers of state dollars available to everyone.
48% : And Gress said he doesn't believe that all of the non-instructional staff being hired by schools is necessary.
46% : Gress, one of the Republicans working to craft that solution, seized on the new findings to charge that education funding in Arizona is not being properly managed. Consider, he said, that back in the 2003-04 school year, 58.6 cents of every dollar going into education went into instruction.

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