Charters challenge fairness of $21 million to DCPS - D.C. Schools Insider - The Washington Post

Charters challenge fairness of $21 million to DCPS - D.C. Schools Insider - The Washington Post:

Charters challenge fairness of $21 million to DCPS

by Bill Turque

DCPS got an early Christmas present last month when District Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi revised his revenue forecast to include an additional $42.2 million. Mayor Vincent C. Gray quickly announced that he will ask the D.C. Council to appropriate half of it to the city’s 123-school system to cover “spending pressures”--the polite term for cost overruns--in the current fiscal year.

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