Following last week’s brief on proposed 2011-13 expenditures in the human services budget area, today we take a look at public schools.  (See also this brief for an overview of the House and Senate budget plans.)

Spending on public schools would increase over 2009-11 levels in both the House- and Senate-passed budgets.  Maintenance level changes would increase spending by $2.158 billion.  Policy changes in the House budget would reduce spending by $1.307 billion, while the Senate would make policy reductions totaling $1.535 billion.

Many of the reductions come in the areas of class size and school employee compensation.