Boston Public Schools chief warns against rat race of school closings, cuts
It’s been a difficult fiscal year for the Boston public school system, but Superintendent Tommy Chang is confident that 2017 will be different.
At a Thursday event hosted by the The Boston Foundation, Chang stressed the need to fix achievement gaps for students of color, English language learners, and students with special needs. But he added that long-term financial planning was necessary to avoid upheavals.
“We have got to get out of this rat race of closings and making cuts every single year,” he said.
Funds are allocated to individual public schools based on a few factors — the size of its population and the particular needs of each student, including grade levels, language skills, and household incomes.
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