PENSACOLA, Florida – Every time a state legislature passes a budget that does not include big increases in aid for K-12 public schools, school administrators scream foul.

A good example was in 2016, when the Florida state legislature found extra money for schools, but apparently not enough.

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“The Florida Legislature agreed on $428 million in state funds for the education budget, and Gov. Scott signed that bill into law,” the Pensacola News Journal reported. “That is an increase of $71 to $7,178 per student, but that equates to only a 1-percent hike in flexible funds for each school.

Escambia County school district Superintendent Malcolm Thomas was clearly not satisfied.

“We have property insurance, light bill, air conditioning,” Thomas told the newspaper. “We get hit with those and 1 percent does not help keep up with even that.”

Here’s a question for Mr. Thomas: If the Escambia district was so desperate for revenue, how could it afford so much travel?

In the 2016-17 fiscal year, the district recorded 1,548 transactions, totaling  $226,046.97, for various travel expenses.

Many district employees helped ring up those expenses, including Superintendent Thomas, who had $3,836.91 worth of travel-related charges, including $3,127.38 for 13 hotel transactions.

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The vast majority of the district’s travel spending went for hotels (220 transactions for $69,807.16), airline costs (256 transactions for $70,941.97) and rental car fees (385 transactions for $46,350.76).

Some of the pricier hotel charges stood out from the rest, including $1,371.25 at CP Hotels (no city listed) on June 30, 2016; $1,141.75 at the Doubletree Stapleton in Denver on July 1, 2016; $954.72 at Hyatt Hotels Denver on March 28, 2017; and $963.92 at the same establishment on the previous day.

The district also recorded 19 transactions at the Tradewinds Island Resort in St. Petersburg (Florida) Beach over the course of the fiscal year, totaling $6,907.55.

School personnel also took a lot of expensive flights.

On May 31, 2017, there were seven transactions with Delta Airlines for $505.60, plus another for $350.50. That added up to $3,889.70.

There were four transactions with Delta on May 11, 2017, for $1,051.60 apiece, totaling $4,206.40.

There was one transaction with Southwest Airlines on April 21, 2017, for a whopping $6,805.20.

On April 20, 2017, there were five transactions with Silver Air – three for $587.40 apiece and two for $621,80 apiece. All of that came to $3,005.80.

There were 17 different transactions with Delta Air on Feb. 13, 2017 for $482.60 apiece, totaling $8,204.20.

There were three transactions with American Airlines on Aug. 31, 2016 for $766.20 apiece, totaling  $2,298.60.

If the school district can afford a travel bill like that one, paying the lights and air conditioning should hardly be a concern.