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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The key to this issue can be found in the following quote from the article:

Grosso said schools with small and falling enrollment — which tend to be in low-income neighborhoods — have higher overhead costs and their budgets do not stretch as far. Those are the schools where at-risk funds are mostly likely to cover basic staffing.

The District's use of student-based budgeting most likely to blame for this situation. [/quote]

This.  I'm at a small school and it's so hard to make it work out.  There is, or used to be, a small school premium that was like a little bump-up, but it wasn't much.  Schools would love to spend at-risk funds properly, but then how does the other necessary stuff get paid for?

I really think the at-risk category should be divided into two or three tiers.  Some kids are more at-risky than others, and more expensive.  Schools that have a high concentration of more expensive kids have a tough time.  If we had two tiers with a significant bump-up, that would more realistically reflect actual costs.  [/quote]

I’m not sure more complex accounting will get at the core problem.

Should some teachers cover two under-enrolled campuses? Why can’t the money that DCPS raises through its foundation be used to cover shortfalls in core funding - rather than bicycling, study abroad etc. [/quote]

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