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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know where people say Payne gets millions in title 1 funds--its budget shows around $211k: http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/ABOUT%20DCPS/Budget%20-%20Finance/FY14%20documents/Updated%20School%20Allocations-FY14/DCPS-PAYNE-Allocation-FY14.pdf

Also, it has a large homeless population, so the challenges its students face are vastly more complicated than those of Janney's population.[/quote]

I am the poster who did the Murch/Payne comparison. I never said that Payne gets millions in title 1 funds. I simply took the total budget of the schools for 2015 and divided by the projected number of students (one poster posted the link to the DCPS 2015 budgets for all schools).  it comes out that Murch gets about $9,000 per student while Payne gets $14,000 per student. $5000 more per student is not really negligible, way more any PTA could raise.  if the schools had the same number of students, Payne would get overn $3Million more than Murch. these are the numbers given by DCPS (clearly Payne gets more money for other sources in addition to title 1). again, this is not to say that Murch should get more, it is simply in response to posters saying that JKLM schools have more money than schools in poor areas because the parents raise funds. it appears instead that poor schools gets more money (at least Payne gets more than Murch) clearly the money raised by the Murch PTA is only a fraction of the difference in funding with Payne. nothing wrong with Payne getting more money per pupil since its student population needs specific support, but let's say that it does get more money and not less[/quote]

Where is your source?  Please include links and as much detail as possible.[/quote]

sorry, as I said, I did not do any sophisticated evaluation. I just looked at the 2015 budget (another poster posted the link earlier this afternoon, this is the link  http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/About+DCPS/Budget+and+Fina...+Report+Card/Submitted+Budgets ).  I just looked at the total 2015 budget for a JKLM school (Murch) and one title 1 school (Payne), and divided by the number of projected students. I kept reading posts saying that WOTP schools get more money from DCPS, or get substantial more funds from their PTA, and other posters saying that schools in poor area get more, but nothing specific, and I wanted to see by myself. based on this raw calculations, Murch gets about $9000 per students while Payne gets about $14,000. I do not have any other links or details. if you have more, post them because I am interested in learning more
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