A student climbs Sept. 9, 2021, on a Haggerty School playground. (Photo: Marc Levy)
It’s almost a handful of loose change in light of the district’s multimillion-dollar annual budget: $1.5 million in school improvement plan funding that may be spent on a broad range of initiatives, ranging from support staff to professional development, math programs to event catering, or consultants to books for summer reading.
The funding is allocated by the district to 19 schools and programs based on enrollment and student need and theoretically governed by each school’s council, which determines how to spend in support of district goals. The council may advise, but not direct, principals on funding priorities, and principals send SIP budget requests to their supervising assistant superintendent over the course of the year, adjusting requests if priorities change.
While the spending goes…
