MassPotential: What does $1.7 billion get you in the Boston Public Schools? Abysmal student achievement and declining results.
Last month, the Boston Public Schools passed a record $1.7 billion budget for the next school year. The district annually spends $36,000 per student, one of the highest levels of per pupil expenditure in the country.
What do the data demonstrate we get from this extraordinary investment in public education?
Only 3 out of 10 Boston students across grades 3 through 8 can read or perform math on grade level. The superintendent and the mayor boast of an 81 percent graduation rate, but this is a notoriously poor measure of student achievement. Only 40 percent of 10th graders met expectations in reading and math, while less than a third of low-income sophomores and just 10 percent of 10th grade English learners were proficient in reading and math.
Read the full op-ed via the CommonWealth Beacon >> https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/what-does-1-7-billion-get-you-in-the-boston-public-schools-abysmal-performance-and-declining-results/