Charter school funding gap in FY27 budget

[Anonymous]

For anyone here with kids in DC charter schools, I wanted to share this petition asking the DC Council to fund charter school students at the same per-student level as students in DCPS:
https://www.change.org/EqualStudentFundingFY27

As I understand it, the Mayor’s proposed FY27 budget creates an approximately $2,000 per-student gap between charter school funding and DCPS funding. For a school like Mundo Verde, that would add up to nearly $2.5 million — about the equivalent of 25 teacher salaries.

Signing the petition is the quick action, but families can also contact DC Councilmembers or testify on May 7 to support fair funding for all public school students.

Here’s a helpful doc with more background, talking points, action steps, and sample scripts:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GZ1TtySCtdqHus1-vL4RcrAKaSQgRsiReb0OmWGlwNg/edit?usp=sharing

[Anonymous]

You lost the lawsuit. Let it go.

When charters are ready to take new kids all year, despite overcrowding, let me know.

[Anonymous]

Oh FFS. Clicked through the talking points and it says "this is coming in the form of line items for teacher bonuses (IMPACT) and Early Stages ( early intervention (which I don’t feel as strongly about because we don’t do it in the charter sector at the moment)"

Well if you're not doing Early Stages kids then you don't get the money for Early Stages kids! Obviously. Oh, you "don't feel as strongly"? Come on. No kids no money, it's as simple as that. Anything else is insane.

It's funny how charters hate the union so much, but when the union bargains for wages, charters want the same money despite doing none of the work.

[Anonymous]

Mundo's argument is that it... Serves kids from Ward 4 and Ward 5? And that's supposed to get them more sympathy? Mundo as a LEA serves 193 at-risk kids.16% of their kids are at-risk. DCPS is 43% at-risk. So excuse me if I don't care.

[Anonymous]

The difference in the facilities budget does feel unfair (DCPS school renovations are funded through the Capital Budget and DGS, while charters have limited funding through the schools budget, which is why we see these insane renovations for DCPS schools but charter schools feel more modest.)

[Anonymous]

DCPS is stuck with its buildings for the long term and has to plan for long term needs and deal with long term maintenance and compliance in 100+ year old buildings. It was a huge struggle for our school just to get the bathrooms made non-awful. GDS takes forever to fix anything. Being part of a larger system has really significant down sides.

Have you been inside Yu Ying, or the new Latin Cooper building? They're as nice as any, certainly way nicer than our Ward 5 Title I.

And of course, why invest in charter buildings when everyone, including the PCSB, is saying the sector is going to contract?

[Anonymous]

Charters cost the city money in other ways.

https://emma.msrb.org/ES1333558-ES1040264-ES1443717.pdf

[Anonymous]

OP, you forgot that DCUM is anti-charter. Of course, that changes once their kids need a middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you forgot that DCUM is anti-charter. Of course, that changes once their kids need a middle school.

I'm not, I just think the Mundo talking points are stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you forgot that DCUM is anti-charter. Of course, that changes once their kids need a middle school.

Seriously. The nest of digital vipers that live here are quite something... and here I thought I was just posting something that the community might want to know about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you forgot that DCUM is anti-charter. Of course, that changes once their kids need a middle school.

Seriously. The nest of digital vipers that live here are quite something... and here I thought I was just posting something that the community might want to know about.

Post about it all you like. But when you come here, you get other people's opinions. Take it or leave it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you forgot that DCUM is anti-charter. Of course, that changes once their kids need a middle school.

Seriously. The nest of digital vipers that live here are quite something... and here I thought I was just posting something that the community might want to know about.

Thanks, I do appreciate knowing that parents at Mundo Verde are going forward with such stupid arguments!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The difference in the facilities budget does feel unfair (DCPS school renovations are funded through the Capital Budget and DGS, while charters have limited funding through the schools budget, which is why we see these insane renovations for DCPS schools but charter schools feel more modest.)

Only a handful of DCPS schools have gotten "insane renovations," and those were politically driven.

Most DCPS buildings suck, and when they do get renovated, it is at minimal quality. Then they don't get maintained.

You want to rely on DGS for your facilities? We'd be happy to trade places on that one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you forgot that DCUM is anti-charter. Of course, that changes once their kids need a middle school.

Seriously. The nest of digital vipers that live here are quite something... and here I thought I was just posting something that the community might want to know about.

Thanks, I do appreciate knowing that parents at Mundo Verde are going forward with such stupid arguments!

Thanks to charter schools such as Mundo, people don’t leave Ward 4 and 5 after ECE, since DCPS doesn’t meet these families’ needs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you forgot that DCUM is anti-charter. Of course, that changes once their kids need a middle school.

Seriously. The nest of digital vipers that live here are quite something... and here I thought I was just posting something that the community might want to know about.

Thanks, I do appreciate knowing that parents at Mundo Verde are going forward with such stupid arguments!

Thanks to charter schools such as Mundo, people don’t leave Ward 4 and 5 after ECE, since DCPS doesn’t meet these families’ needs.

Okay, but the arguments in the talking points document are still stupid.

So glad Mundo is remedying its poor performance and no longer has parents picketing in the streets out front!