Initial School Budgets Show DCPS Needs a Plan to Ensure Equitable Funding and Stability
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As DC residents face the rising costs of basic needs like food and housing, DC policymakers should use the fiscal year (FY) 2023 supplemental and 2024 budgets to build on efforts for a racially just future.
Though many residents at McPherson may choose not to go to a shelter, “it’s important to make sure that we actually have the beds that we offer,” Coventry said.
“These are people who came from Scott Circle and the other encampments closed around the city. They’ve been shuffled around and that means it’s been hard to engage with them.”
“If there are needs within the charter sector, they should be providing more data and information to justify that,” Qubilah Huddleston, an education policy analyst at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute, tells Loose Lips.
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“Councilmember Frumin has already done a lot of work trying to track down how much the city is investing in charters versus how much DCPS is getting for its facilities and whether that’s enough, and I really think those conversations will keep happening […]