But the mayor’s proposed budget did not include money to operate the pool for the public. When George learned that the money wasn’t in the budget, she pushed to get it into the school system’s budget. But she discovered that it wasn’t that simple. If the city added the money, it would have to give the charter sector — which educates nearly half the public school population — the same amount of money through the per pupil funding formula.

Source: Washington Post July 30, 2021 23:05 UTC