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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is at least the 3rd year in a row that the Mayor and Chancellor have pushed out press releases stating that they are increasing funding for DCPS schools when they are actually cutting funding.  Each year they push more costs onto schools without providing more funding.  Last year (or 2 years ag0?) it was security costs.  This year they provided $0 for non-personnel funding.  That means schools need to cut staffing positions if they want to have money to pay for paper and cleaning supplies.

Now, it seems they want to require schools to use the federal stimulus funding to pay for outside organizations to push in after school programs while at the same time cutting actual in-school teaching staff and support staff.  It's a clear diversion of funding from schools to non-school entities.

Some parents and LSATs have been trying to fight back against this continual bait and switch for several years now with no success.  The Mayor keeps getting away with it.  I honestly don't know how to get the oversight and transparency that is needed.[/quote]

[b]What are you talking about? According to my school’s budget sheet we get non personnel funding and after you take away all the money lost due to cuts, 50k in stimulus money[/b].[/quote]

Name the school please - every school I’ve heard about had their non personnel funding line at 0.[/quote]

Both of my children’s schools, on is Janney. They have a section titled non personnel spending under every school.
Janney’s is 114k.

From what someone else said it seems that’s a sham?[/quote]

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