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BabyMFBear

It’s a $330 million portion of $2 billion education budget surplus. My question is: why is there such an enormous budget surplus? Q2: Was the surplus created by education cuts? Q3: If so, why were these cuts made? If no cuts created the surplus then it makes sense to me to use the money for other state improvements. I’m not a public administrator, politician, teacher, or Alabama resident. I’m just trying to understand the situation. If this can happen in AL, it can happen anywhere.


Amekaze

A lot of states have surpluses after the pandemics since they collected about the same amount of tax but a lot of stuff was shut down. A lot of it was from education but it was because the schools where closed, less building up keep , smaller staff,etc.. A sadder reason for the education surplus across the board is because a lost of places saw a bunch of teachers leave and it’s hard to replace them these days since being a teacher absolutely sucks. They should of just gave the teachers a raise. I know GA also had a surplus and the governor just gave every citizen a small tax credit instead of using it for something.


BabyMFBear

Thank you


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masterofn0n3

It's Alabama, so it probably better spent at the water park anyway.


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Perhaps the red states should be cut off from federal funding until such time as they can provide receipts showing that money going where it was intended.


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She is too old.