Seattle Schools Community Forum: Equitable funding for schools

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Equitable funding for schools:

Equitable funding for schools

The budget is supposed to treat every school fairly, but there are five schools singled out for unfair treatment. The Board should address this unfairness - which clearly violates policy and the strategic plan - when they vote to today to adopt a budget for the coming school year.


As always, the annual budget will include allocations for each school. Per Board Policy 6010, School Funding Model, the funding for each school is supposed to:

• Provide the basic staffing for school
• Have a transparent model
• Provide core staffing
• Be based on data
• Account for differences in student characteristics like poverty,