How School Finance Works: Two Fact-Checking Tweetstorms In The Charter Debate

November 04, 2016

Meghna Chakrabarti

The state's foundation budget formula determines how schools are funded by the state. (Unsplash)

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Radio Boston has been exploring two underlying causes of strained school budgets in this last week of the debate over the charter cap. Working with producer Kathleen McNerney, I posted these findings on Twitter, in two separate "tweetstorms."

First, some context for the fact that Boston spends more than almost any other major city in the nation:

Next, we took a look at school budget shortfalls that go beyond the charter issue, back to the "foundation budget," the formula that determines district budgets and state aid to schools across Massachusetts:

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