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Higley Unified launches student participatory budget pilot, earmarks $75,000 in capital funds
Summary
The board received an information item introducing a school participatory budgeting pilot that will give students direct control over limited capital funds: $5,000 per elementary school and $7,500 per secondary school, with a $75,000 district allocation for the first year.
The Higley Unified School District introduced a district-wide pilot of school participatory budgeting (SPB) intended to give students direct decision-making responsibility for modest capital projects at each campus.
Mister Armstrong, the staff presenter, described SPB as a student-driven civic learning process partnered with the Center for the Future of Arizona and Arizona State University's participatory governance initiative. He said the first-year district allocation is approximately $75,000 from the capital budget and that each…
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