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[quote=Anonymous][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]

The core of the problem is there almost zero transparency across DCPS and the council, especially Grosso, is not smart or aggressive enough to investigate and hold DCPS accountable for what actually goes on.    [/quote]

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