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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Here's a letter from CHristopher Rinkus at DCPS about the budget cuts to Wilson. The bottom line is that in order to fund more $ for at risk students, the per pupil funding was cut severely at Wilson. That is how DCPS came up with more money. You don't fix one problem by causing another. 
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That letter is pretty dense, but if I understand correctly, they over-funded middle schools last year and decided to make cuts elsewhere to "protect that investment". The cuts "elsewhere" include Wilson. I think all the talk about at-risk funding is a smokescreen being used to cover-up other irrational spending (such as over-funding middle schools).
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But Wilson did lose at risk $ because it has a relatively low # of at risk students. Per the letter:

"For a school like Wilson, with a lower percentage of at-risk students compared to other neighborhood high schools, the change from a general at-risk allocation to a proportional at-risk allocation had an impact. Our implementation of the PWP award is an example: in the current fiscal year, Wilson’s PWP award was $100 per student, for a total of about $170,000. For the upcoming fiscal year, PWP is newly fixed to the number of at-risk students, and totals about $30,000—a reduction of approximately $140,000 in funding that Wilson received in the current fiscal year. For schools with higher percentages of at-risk students, the new PWP award formula resulted in more money than the current fiscal year."

But the rest of your analysis is right on.[/quote]

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