DCPS enrollment: Missing the mark by $18 million– another Rhee claim debunked
Michelle Rhee: “After nearly four decades of declining enrollment, D.C. public schools saw student numbers increase in the last year of my tenure. Parents are still speaking with their feet — only now they are walking their children to, not away from, D.C. public schools.” (source)
Written by Bill Turque for The Washington Post. Read the entire article here.
“DCPS routinely–some critics say systematically– overestimates enrollment projections built into its annual operating budgets. In FY 2010 and 2011 the system also received more money than it would have if payments had been based on actual enrollment: a total of $29 million“