Daily News | Are Philly schools’ 2022-23 budgets a ‘massacre’ or advancing equity?
Philadelphia’s principals’ union is calling next year’s $3.9 billion school budget a “massacre,” with many schools losing teachers and other positions crucial to kids’ education.
that schools are losing an average of five teachers in next year’s budget, that 45% of schools will lose assistant principals, 73% will lose climate managers, 67% will lose literacy and math specialists, and 73% will lose special education compliance monitors.
That’s because of both feedback from some principals who said they would rather buy programs than have positions, and because the district applied an equity lens to the spending and saw that the large number of small schools in the district skewed the per-student distribution, Monson said. Depending on where they’re enrolled, there’s now an up to $1,900-per-student gap between big and small schools in spending, he said; the new distribution will lower the gap to about $630.
One principal, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal from CASA, called this year’s budget process complicated but workable.
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