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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ward 3 is getting a whole new high school so waaaaaaaaah [/quote]

Oh please. The "new" high school is an old elementary school in a bad location.  They aren't doing major renovations; just adding a cafeteria, which previously didn't exist.  The goal is to reduce the growth at already way-overcrowded J-R, which serves students from a bunch of wards.

So why are you acting like Ward 3 is getting showered with luxuriant gifts?  The gift was to GDS -- Bowser did them a favor by buying their property.  The gift is not to DCPS or public school families.[/quote]

Well, I live in Ward 5 and our Title I is taking a cut despite a 10% enrollment increase. So forgive me if I don't feel sorry for Ward 3.[/quote]

Your Ward 5 school -- Burroughs ES -- is receiving $21,464 dollars per student next year. The per-student average for Ward 3 elementary schools is $12,238. So your school is still receiving $9,226 more per student which is equivalent to 75% higher spending. If Janney received the same funding per student as Burroughs, it would increase Janney's annual budget by $5.7 million which would enable it to hire over 50 more teachers So there is that...[/quote]

Different Burroughs parent here. Forgive us if we’re feeling a little testy. We’ve been dealing with some infrastructure issues lately, so the timing of this announcement is really frustrating. It’s not like we have lobster and caviar Fridays with the extra $. But if Janney families think they are missing out and want to trek across town to Brookland…[/quote]

Oh FFS. Title I schools are supposed to have more funding! It's the law! And if Janney had the amount of SPeD and ELL and at-risk that Burroughs does, Janney would have more funding too. But Janney, poor Janney, misses out on the privilege of educating these kids and has to content itself with six-figure parent fundraising every year instead.

I have literally no idea why anyone would think per capita funding arguments are even slightly persuasive. If funding were equal per capita, that would violate federal law.[/quote]

Nobody Janney person complained that Burroughs should get more money.  A Burroughs parent seemed to think that only Burroughs should get to complain about budget cuts.

Can we move back to the main issue, which is schools (many? most? all?) losing much-needed funds?[/quote]

Fixing my nonsensical first sentence:

No Janney person complained that Burroughs gets more money.  A Burroughs parent seemed to think that only Burroughs should get to complain about budget cuts.

Can we move back to the main issue, which is schools (many? most? all?) losing much-needed funds?[/quote]

You can blame the OP of this thread who was bemoaning the lack of W3 resources[/quote]

I think OP thought only Ward 3 schools are having their budgets cut. As this thread demonstrates, that is not the case.[/quote]

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