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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is $350 million in school funding "cut immediately?"  [/quote]

The same way that federal agencies are being cut now?? Ask for voluntary resignations and early retirements and then schedule terminations with little notice. Freeze all non-personnel spending. Maybe end the school year early. Cut preschool and preK, adult education and the STAY/dropout programs as they are not compulsory. There are really no good answers when it comes to schools. It seems crazy that this even has to be contemplated when most of this money is local DC taxpayer money.

What's not clear to me is whether the total is $350 million or is it just the portion of that $350 million that is left for the remainder of the federal fiscal year (through September 30).[/quote]

Is there a date that the available funding will run out?  I mean, at what point in the school year will the available pot of money (minus the $365 million that will now no longer be available) be spent?  [/quote]

I haven't seen any dates but these resolutions are typically enacted immediately. I'm more familiar with charter finances not DCPS. Charters receive quarterly payments for their operations - July, September, January and April. We are hearing that the next payments for April, July and September could be significantly reduced. All schools are going to be hurt but given the way budgeting is prioritized, DCPS might have more opportunities for stabilization funds. Still if this passes, I'm guessing even DCPS will see devastating cuts and some charters could fail to make payroll which will put them up for closure/revocation.

If there is equity in the cuts across both types of schools, this is probably $3,500 per kid that needs to be cut.

It's really hard to believe that this is even in the realm of possibility.[/quote]

So charters potentially won't have adequate money for salaries in April.  And if they have no money they either 1)fire staff or 2)ask staff to work for free?[/quote]

I'm hoping that if this happens, the schools will ask the parents for donations.  I would be happy to donate some money to keep my kids in school.[/quote]

3,500 PER STUDENT of money raised via donation? You have to be kidding. This is a structural failure and individual contributions wouldn't / couldn't make a meaningful difference.[/quote]

Worried that the parents who could help out will just go to independent schools! I would![/quote]

Independent school admissions just came out last week and had record breaking numbers.  There isn't an empty seat in the DMV. [/quote]

But they always say that they have had record-breaking numbers,  every year, everywhere. My FIL was an admissions director and I am sure that I heard that every single year for 15 years.

My kid is at DC private, and we were going to move him to public for HS this Fall. But now that I feel we can't give up our seat at a school where we know things are going to be stable.[/quote]

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