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District pilots student-based budgeting model; mobility, restricted funds cited as main hurdles
Summary
Cincinnati Public Schools is testing a student-based budgeting model on a small set of schools. Administrators said the approach would let money follow students and their needs but warned high student mobility and restricted categorical funds complicate implementation.
Cincinnati Public Schools told the board Feb. 24 it is piloting a student-based budgeting model intended to allocate resources to individual schools based on enrolled students and category weights (special education, English language learners, gifted, poverty, career and technical education).
Under the model staff described, a per-student base rate is computed by grade and adjusted by categorical weights; a school’s staffing and non-personnel costs are then funded from its generated revenue. District leaders said they have modeled the approach for four elementary schools — two neighborhood…
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