Charter school funding gap in FY27 budget
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Anonymous
Some of the problem is they have major staffing issues at DPR w/r/t aquatics. Even the “real” public pools can’t be open enough because they don’t have enough life guards. Insurance costs mean they can’t hire disinterested teenagers |
Anonymous
DCPS isn't spending anything because those costs are handled by other agencies. |
Anonymous
You're just making up stuff you don't know to be true. There are few facilities easily available to charters and many take what they can get. That comes along with asbestos and other necessary remediation. |
Anonymous
Okay. Either way, the point is, it's very difficult to do a full accounting of how much it costs to run DCPS. |
Anonymous
Yes, they have to take what they can get, and pickings are slim at this point. But they aren't stuck with one single specific building. DCPS schools can't decide among different buildings with various pros and cons. DCPS schools get what they get and it isn't a decision made by leadership of each school. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
This is only true when charters open and doesn't factor in the cost of maintaining the building or what happens when the school outgrows it. We used to be at TR 4th Street and while the building was not why we left, it was a perpetual frustration to me that the school seemed content to stay in a truly awful space. A split campus on a busy corner with a tiny play space feet away from constant traffic? It sucks. Meanwhile DCPS schools in the same neighborhood have almost all gotten major renovations and overhauls within the last 10 years. Yes, TR has Young which is a nice facility in a terrible location that is not walkable for the vast majority if students and has regular safety issues due to the location. Charters do NOT have better options when it comes to facilities. In many cases their options are considerably worse with fewer options for renovation and improvements. |
Anonymous
It's the same story with Cardoza. Barely a hundred kids in each grade. The city dropped $100 million on renovations. They'd never do that for charters. |
Anonymous
Learn to spell it before you criticize, and also the smaller enrollment is on purpose as some feeders were switched to Francis. |
Anonymous
You're missing the point. Charters have autonomy to make their own decisions for better or for worse. Each DCPS school gets what central gives it, period. I haven't a clue why TR chose or stays in that building. Other school buildings in the area have come on the market during their time on 4th St. And a huge part of their problem is the ginormous waste of space atrium. Yay, autonomy! |
Anonymous
Do you think any of the kids there can spell the name of their school? The truancy rate there tops 60 percent. |
Anonymous
| DCPS not having to factor in facilities costs inside of their budget is like MPD not having to factor in millions of dollars of overtime into theirs. We need more budget discipline as a city. I would rather reign in costs for DCPS in order to be able to afford other programs like Medicaid and the early childhood pay equity fund. |
Anonymous
Have they allowed any charter school to practice there? |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| The argument that the teacher's union bargained for their bonuses and the charter schools shouldn't benefit is not really a fair argument. The union bargained the bonuses, but not with council on the overall budget. The school system needs to account for those bonuses in their overall budget. The charter schools by law are to get equal funding. It doesn't matter if the teachers union bargained for a benefit. What matters is that the funding between DCPS and the charters schools is the same. If DCPS is giving bonuses, that is up to them. The charter schools should get the same increase by law and may opt to use it for bonuses, raises or something like a new HVAC. |