Administrative costs

these are the ones that are counted as school spending by city administration
$400,000 under includes the estimate in administrative support and overhead for WPS
WPS pays 54% of those departments
will be going up $200,000 to $5.1 million
Worcester spends $4.3 million, city charging $4.9 million
NO OTHER GATEWAY COMMUNITY IN WHICH THE CITY SPENDS MORE ON ADMINISTRATION THAN THE SCHOOLS SPEND THEMSELVES.
dialogue on reopening the agreement with city
DESE being engaged as technical guidance on this issue
Plus the city is taking 3% on all grants, the School Committee has maintained our statutory right to set our grant rate, which we've set at 1%
DESE has decided in our favor; the city has sent it to the feds (OMB) for a decision which is weird, since they have no oversight
$18.58 tax rate
$5.53 goes to schools
$0.43 goes to charter schools
Foley : not costing 54% of those departments is being used for WPS
I've been asked to note here that Councilor O'Brien had to leave because he had to relieve his babysitter
Grant percentage is excluded; that's additional