Budget time is here again for schools, whose fiscal year begins July 1.

That means administrators and school boards are facing some thorny outlooks, some worse than others, when it comes to funding. The Missouri General Assembly didn't provide the funding increase that educators had sought last session, and school districts say that puts them in a bind with increasing employee salaries and other costs.

Public school funding is one of the primary duties of the legislature, but many education advocates have long been critical that the General Assembly isn't doing its job. Depending on who you ask, the state ranks anywhere from No. 49 to somewhere in the 30s when it comes to education funding.

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