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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The central budget was already cut significantly for this year with a staff reduction of 10%, with another planned cut for next year. Schools have already been complaining that they aren’t receiving the same level of support due to staffing cuts. What do you think would happen if the rest were cut? Some central positions are actually vital to the functioning of a school. [/quote]

I'm curious (and not trying to be argumentative), [b]why did they make significant cuts if the budget went up by 4% for FY25[/b]? [/quote]

It was a DC council decision to give the funding directly to schools. It seems great in theory, but then schools made budget decision under the assumption central would still have funding to buy things as usual. So a school may have chosen to hire another teacher, but then central may not have the money to continue buying a particular resource they expected them to provide. Now with a potential to revert back to FY24, those new hires would likely no longer exist either. It just sucks all around.[/quote]

They had to accommodate the teacher pay increases in the budget - that was the largest line item increasing the overall budget. I'm worried that if this resolution passes and continues into next year, DC will roll back pay increases.[/quote]

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