Campuses are happy enough with budget process. It is driven by site based decision-making. They have control over it. But, once this budget is finalized, the district takes money out of the school's accounts without telling them, then, the schools are over budget in areas. The central office asks campuses to cut their budget.
Campuses use their site based decision-making process to do so.
Then the central office says 'no', cut here instead. There are staffing formulas, but they are not used. The district can't afford to staff them. Although I am a taxpayer, I'm not sure I agree with still having such a large homestead exemption - it seems to really put the entire district in a bind. Resources are not allocated equitably to schools.