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DCPS budget: the Rhee Effect

by Bill Turque

D.C. public and public charter schools get an additional $86 million in the FY 2013 budget proposed by Mayor Vincent C. Gray on Friday, much of it to cover projected enrollment increases. That includes a 2 percent increase in the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula, raising the basic allocation from $8,945 to $9,124. There is also $40 million — savings from rollbacks in private special education tuition — to be reinvested in expanding the capacity of neighborhood schools to support disabled kids. The charter school facility allotment stays unchanged at $3,000 per student.
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