A BPS vendor charging $2,000/day and BPS pays. Sounds like McKinsey.
BPS Funding
Per-pupil school funding widens some equity gaps
Weaknesses in the weighted student funding model, explained in real life technicolor in the Banner.
http://baystatebanner.com/news/2017/mar/31/-pupil-school-funding-widens-some-equity-gaps/?page=1
School Committee approves budget
Details about the budget vote last night, and the amazing students, parents and teachers who protested the cuts.
http://baystatebanner.com/news/2017/mar/23/school-committee-approves-budget/
BPS is 53rd in State in Per-Pupil Spending
“Are we spending ‘too much’ on kids in P-Town, Cambridge, Lincoln, Weston, etc, or are we just spending ‘too much’ on THESE KIDS?’ asks BPS parent Kristin Johnson.
Teachers, students, parents slam proposed BPS budget
Thanks student, parents, teachers who spoke out against budget cuts which disproportionally affect our neediest schools.
BPS budget comes under fire
The Opportunity and Achievement Task Force testified last night: “[We are] opposed to the 2017-2018 budget as it is currently written because it will have a negative impact on the district’s efforts to eliminate opportunity and achievement gaps, particularly for students attending low-performing schools,” said task force member Ayele Shakur, reading from a statement. “By using the current Weighted Student Funding Formula as its foundation, the SY18 budget systematically disinvests in the district’s lowest performing schools that have the greatest needs.”
http://baystatebanner.com/news/2017/mar/22/bps-budget-comes-under-fire/
When Donors Choose, Some Win and Some Lose
Parent Kristin Johnson looks at community fundraising in schools and the inequities behind this.
http://bostonpoliticaleducation.blogspot.com/2017/03/when-donors-choose-some-win-and-some.html
Cuts spur conversation on weighted school funding
Isn’t something wrong when the schools losing the most money are the ones needing the most help? “The Jackson Mann K-8 school, is a Level 4 school — one level away from triggering state receivership — is due to receive a cut of $1,006,769. Brighton High School, also at Level 4 is due a cut of $1,007,459, in the proposed fiscal year 2018 budget. Those schools are at the top of a list that also includes cuts of $751,748 to the Level 4 Dever School and $190,769 at Boston Latin Academy.”
http://baystatebanner.com/news/2017/mar/08/school-officials-committee-debate-school-funding/?page=1
School budget plan ripped for impact on minority pupils
What’s the impact of the budget on underperforming schools which disproportionally serve students of color? Great questions and requests by the Black Educators Alliance.
Budgets shrink at 49 Boston public schools
48 BPS schools are facing budget cuts. DON’T minimize the impact of this and DO ask why projected enrollments are so varied across schools. Still no analysis of school assignment plan to understand this.
http://baystatebanner.com/news/2017/mar/01/budgets-shrink-48-boston-public-schools/