COBI 2013 - MSP - Basic School Program

Compendium of Budget Information for the 2013 General Session

Public Education
Appropriations Subcommittee

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Agency: MSP - Basic School Program

Function

The Basic School Program provides general operational revenues to school districts and charter schools. Program appropriations support education programs for all public kindergarten, elementary, and secondary students in the state. The basic program is divided into two sub-programs:

Regular Program -- provides generally unrestricted revenue to school districts and charter schools. The appropriation includes funding for Kindergarten, Grades 1-12, Professional Staff, Administrative Costs and a supplement for Necessarily Existent Small Schools.
Restricted Program -- includes targeted programs for Special Education, Career and Technology Education, and Class Size Reduction. As the name implies, the use of allocated funding by school districts and charter schools is restricted to the functions defined in each sub-program.

Basic School Programs use the WPU to estimate the cost of each sub-program and to distribute program appropriations in a relatively proportional manner among school districts and charter schools. Generally, one WPU equals one pupil in average daily membership (ADM). One program, Professional Staff, uses the number of Full-Time-Equivalent (FTE) licensed staff in the school districts and charter schools to determine WPU counts.

Certain programs within the basic program generate fewer or additional WPUs based on statutory guidelines, which most often is based on student qualification. For example, kindergarten students generate .55 of a WPU whereas students enrolled in special education programs generate more than one WPU. These weightings allow the program to adjust to meet the varied costs associated with educating different student populations.

Funding Detail

For more detail about a particular source of finance or organizational unit, click a linked entry in the left column of the table(s) below.

Table 1: Operating and Capital Budget Including Expendable Funds and Accounts

Sources of Finance (click linked fund name for more info)	2009 Actual	2010 Actual	2011 Actual	2012 Actual	2013 Approp
General Fund, One-time	$0	$0	$0	$0	$1,900,000
Uniform School Fund	$1,579,387,985	$1,611,173,699	$19,000,000	$19,000,000	$16,000,000
Uniform School Fund, One-time	$0	$0	$30,000,000	$12,000,000	$45,000,000
Education Fund	$0	$0	$1,627,171,936	$1,827,993,674	$1,894,689,200
Education Fund, One-time	$0	$0	($30,000,000)	($12,000,000)	($46,900,000)
Local Revenue	$260,731,750	$273,950,764	$297,509,200	$284,221,700	$289,021,900
Transfers	$0	$0	($7,151,700)	($8,766,608)	$0
Beginning Nonlapsing	$0	$0	$17,061,500	$33,820,000	$1,362,200
Beginning Nonlapsing - Voted and Board	$0	$0	$7,800,000	$0	$0
Closing Nonlapsing	$0	$0	($30,834,600)	($46,340,800)	($1,362,200)
Total	$1,840,119,735	$1,885,124,463	$1,930,556,336	$2,109,927,966	$2,199,711,100

Line Items (click linked line item name to drill-down)	2009 Actual	2010 Actual	2011 Actual	2012 Actual	2013 Approp
Basic School Program	$1,840,119,735	$1,885,124,463	$1,930,556,336	$2,109,927,966	$2,199,711,100
Total	$1,840,119,735	$1,885,124,463	$1,930,556,336	$2,109,927,966	$2,199,711,100

Categories of Expenditure (mouse-over category name for definition)	2009 Actual	2010 Actual	2011 Actual	2012 Actual	2013 Approp
Other Charges/Pass Thru	$1,840,119,735	$1,885,124,463	$1,930,556,336	$2,109,927,966	$2,199,711,100
Total	$1,840,119,735	$1,885,124,463	$1,930,556,336	$2,109,927,966	$2,199,711,100

Other Indicators	2009 Actual	2010 Actual	2011 Actual	2012 Actual	2013 Approp
Weighted Pupil Units	0	731,519	745,100	764,725	782,017

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COBI contains unaudited data as presented to the Legislature by state agencies at the time of publication. For audited financial data see the State of Utah's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports.