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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want to highlight how ridiculous Taylor's equity claims are.

In his 400 page budget document, you have to go to page 349 (the appendix) to learn that he is increasing class sizes in focus and Title 1 schools. I don't see anywhere that he documents how much money he saves by doing this, but it is almost certainly tens of millions of dollars.

On the other hand, right up there on pages 5-6, he says "Equitable School Allocations: In the FY 2026 budget, I took a significant step to provide differentiated funding directly where our most impacted students are, and allow school leaders to determine what 
will most benefit their students and their school communities by adding to the budget $2.5 million for this purpose. The FY 2027 budget recommended increase of $1.2 million for this critical need constitutes phase two of a five-year implementation to provide schools the resources needed based on the specific needs of their student population."

The total "equity add on" is about $4 million and it is spread out to ALL schools including the very wealthiest schools. So let's say three quarters is actually allocated to schools with more need - that's $3 million, which will most certainly be dwarfed by the money lost to focus and Title 1 schools.[/quote]

Yep, the class size changes will mean a truly massive cut to Title 1 and focus schools. Their summary says "The net change from the current staffing guidelines and the proposed staffing standards for FY 2027 result in a net decrease of 97.5 FTEs and $15.6 million," but the actual cuts to the poorer schools are actually way larger than that, because that's the savings *after* accounting for the extra cost of the smaller cost sizes at the richer schools.  So they are cutting way more than $15 million from the poorer schools (probably twice or three times that or more), and then giving all but $15.6 million of that to the richer schools.  [/quote]

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