Federal grants to DCPS

[Anonymous]

Anyone know what DCPS currently gets grant money for?

[Anonymous]

Title I and II, JROTC (DoD)

[Anonymous]

There are various grants that go to school adjacent programs that impact schools too. The DC Budget index shows about 8 lines that DC considers school related budget areas, one of which is DCPS. The DCPS budget itself combines Federal in interdistrict grants amounting to 18%, while the DC Charters Schools separate those and indicate 11% federal, so the DCPS federal is probably closer to 11% too. It's all available on line. Dig in.

[Anonymous]

Federally supported programs include school breakfast/food programs, head start, DCTAG, homeless (McKinney Vento).

Here is an older list that may be helpful - https://dccouncil.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GD0_FY23_Attachment-III.pdf

[Anonymous]

DCPS gets a TON of federal grants money--Title 1 (antipoverty and probably the single biggest), Title 2 (professional development), Title 3 (English Language Learners), Title 4 (afterschool and other things), etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS gets a TON of federal grants money--Title 1 (antipoverty and probably the single biggest), Title 2 (professional development), Title 3 (English Language Learners), Title 4 (afterschool and other things), etc.

That must also be every school district in the US no?

[Anonymous]

yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS gets a TON of federal grants money--Title 1 (antipoverty and probably the single biggest), Title 2 (professional development), Title 3 (English Language Learners), Title 4 (afterschool and other things), etc.

That must also be every school district in the US no?

Yes, 14% of total budget is the average (in DC it is ~11%, part of which is the voucher program), targeted to programs like special education, gifted and talented education, low income, vocational training programs, ROTC, etc: https://www.pgpf.org/article/how-is-k-12-education-funded/

[Anonymous]

Perkins Career and Tech education, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act funds for adult education

[Anonymous]

wow so despite having the highest tax rates in the country DC still relies on the federal govt grants something ain't right

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wow so despite having the highest tax rates in the country DC still relies on the federal govt grants something ain't right

Every single school district in the US relies on federal grants in some way whether in Westchester or Baltimore.

These figures show DC, despite having a large population of lower SES students has a smaller percentage of the budget made up of federal programming.

People have absolutely no idea how much federal grant funding makes everything we do possible. But when universities are forced to chose spending their endowments on health sciences and engineering or college football a lot of people might get a much more intimate idea of how federal dollars are spent.

[Anonymous]

Supposedly Title 1 funds have not been paused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wow so despite having the highest tax rates in the country DC still relies on the federal govt grants something ain't right

The hell are you talking about? CA, NJ, NY all have higher income tax rates.

Tax burden is lower in DC for a middle class family than NoVA or MoCo/PG once you take into account income tax, property tax, sales tax, etc.

As the PP shows, DC is less reliant on federal transfer dollars for education (11%) than the average state (14%).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wow so despite having the highest tax rates in the country DC still relies on the federal govt grants something ain't right

Lol look: a moron in the wild, commenting on education funding like they know anything about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:wow so despite having the highest tax rates in the country DC still relies on the federal govt grants something ain't right

what? DC is not VA...

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/property-taxes-by-state-county-2024/