Once you start talking about numbers with more than one comma, it can be hard to conceptualize what half a billion dollars could really look like. The entire package of federal funds — that full $461 million dollars — breaks down to about $9,581 per BPS student.
Remember, this is in addition to the roughly $23,000 BPS already spends per student each year. Theoretically, BPS has approximately $32,500 per student for FY22 at their disposal if they leveraged the full amount of federal spending available to them. If they did, BPS per student spending would exceed the average cost of private school tuitions in Massachusetts by nearly $11,000.
To say that BPS has an opportunity to make systemic, lasting changes to benefit all K-12 students within the district is an understatement.
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