20 Questions that should be asked of DOE about Fair student funding & the education budget
The mayor is due to announce his education budget tomorrow, Friday. For the DOE fair student funding formula,see here. The next PEP meeting (May 18 at 6:00PM at Long Island City HS at 14-30 Broadway in Queens) will apparently vote on it, but CEC's are also being provided with briefings in the meantime and allowed to ask questions.
1- What is the base funding per student that schools receive, and how does that compare to last year and the year before?
2- Why are elementary grade students funded at lower levels than middle and HS students, especially when the class sizes in these grades are supposed to be kept smaller?
3- How is poverty defined – free or reduced lunch students or both? And why isn’t there a separate standard for each, given their widely different income levels and challenges?
4- Why are the selective specialized schools given more funding per student? Doesn’t this lead to