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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused.  I read through the petition and it doesn't say that the money that is being taken away from Wilson and being given to other schools, but that is what this thread seems to be implying.  Don't schools like Coolidge and Eastern get more per pupil funding because they may have more English language learners, Special Ed students, at-risk students, etc. etc. than Wilson.  If so, then it makes sense to me that the per pupil funding is more at these other schools.[/quote]

There are a few issues involved in your question. The activists behind the petition absolutely don't want to take funding from other schools. So, whether the cuts are going to increases in the budgets of other schools is immaterial to their concern. But, as a factual matter, DCPS receives equal funding per student regardless of high school, but then allocates that disproportionately with Wilson getting less per student. As I said before, I believe we are only talking about the base funding before at risk and other funds are added. So, those funds only add to the discrepancy (or maybe not given that Wilson has a lot of at risk kids as well).
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