All things being equal, Weighted Student Funding (WSF) is one strategy Boston Public Schools (BPS) uses to accommodate the ways in which student need can impact individual school budgets by providing school leaders with the funding they need to best serve their students and meet their unique needs.
The flexible formula that is WSF provides budgetary equity. The BPS budget equation works at its best when the number of students remains constant and predictable.
But what happens when the number of students doesn’t remain constant?
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