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BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FY20 B UDGET P ROPOSAL February 6 th , 2019 1

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Why we are all here: Closing opportunity gaps for Boston youth 2

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Four themes have driven the BPS FY20 budget proposal Prioritizing school-based investments to continue steady 1 progress towards our long term goals of equity, flexibility and stability, including $6M of new supports in FY20 Sustain major, research-backed central investments along with 2 targeted new investments Further increase transparency with the launch of a new web 3 tool and enable additional equity analysis Continuous operational improvements to fund investment 4 3

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Key facts and figures  We expect Mayor Walsh’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Proposal to include a projected $26M increase for BPS o The total appropriation will be $1.139 billion o The number will go up further upon settling a collective bargaining agreement with the BTU  Per pupil spending has increased 25% from $16.5K to $20.6K per year since FY14, a total increase of $200M o With this investment, we have improved the ratio of teaching staff to students by 10%  The City continues to make up for reductions at the State and Federal levels o This $26 million increase is in spite of a $12 million decline in Net State Aid compared to FY19 under the Governor’s proposed budget o Since 2010, Net State Education Aid has fallen from 20% of the BPS budget to less than 4%. City Funds have fully replaced lost state funding and more o The proposal includes $3.8M to backfill the end of the federal Pre-School Expansion Grant  We propose $6M to support equity and stability in school budgets; budgets will rise further when the next BTU contract is settled o We continue to build out our supports for schools with declining enrollment  We also propose a series of targeted high-impact investments in school supports. Highlights include: o $750K in transformation for low performing schools (adding to an existing $1.3M reserve for low performing schools with declining enrollment) o $500K in welcome services policy, training, and messaging o $375K to strengthen science instruction o $364K to expand Exam School access and bring ISEE into classrooms o $350K to strengthen high school pathways for all students (in addition to over $1.6M on school budgets) o Coordinated investment in the capital budget to improve facilities 4

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Reminder of our Close Opportunity Gaps Long Term Financial Plan and Investment Framework Our work continues to be aligned across years Make Enable system-wide school-led investments investments Identify new revenue & make tradeoffs to fund investments Continuous improvement to drive operational efficiency

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Proposed FY20 Budget ($ millions) FY19 FY20 Percent Category Change Notes Adopted Proposed Change School Budgets $594 $598 $4 0.8% ELT $14 $16 $2 11.0% • Three additional schools onto Schedule A Direct School Expenses • Benefits & Salary Savings $115 $116 $1 1.3% Limited growth due to City cost control efforts Total Schools $723 $730 $7 1.0% Transportation $92 $96 $4 4.7% • Special Education $41 $43 $2 4.1% Reflecting increasing student need School Facilities $67 $68 $0 0.6% • Complementary capital budget investments Services • Increases in psychological services, food services, high Budgeted Other $57 $60 $4 6.8% school supports Centrally Benefits & Salary Savings $20 $21 $0 1.3% Total SSBC $277 $288 $11 3.8% • Increases in ISEE in the classroom, Welcome Services, 2 Central Administration $52 $54 $2 3.8% new Academic Superintendents for school support, Special Education leadership and ABA program oversight Central Administration Benefits & Salary Savings $7 $7 $0 1.3% Total Central $59 $61 $2 3.5% • Replacing federal funding for PEG grant (pre-K at Student services $26 $31 $5 18.8% community based partners); also includes out of district Non-BPS special ed and vocational placements and adult ed Student • Transportation for charter, private, parochial and out of Transportation $28 $29 $1 4.7% Services district special education students Total Non-BPS $54 $60 $6 11.5% Total $1.112B $1.139B $26M 2.4% 6

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Agenda Prioritizing school-based investments Targeted central investments Transparency and equity Fiscal environment 7

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Our priorities in funding schools 1 2 3 4 School Equity Transparency Stability Flexibility Provide more resources Our community Minimize annual Allow our leaders closest to our high need understands where the changes so schools can to students to make students money goes and why plan across years critical decisions • $5.8M in partnership • Inclusive supports and • Introduction of new • Empowering school FY19 changes funds reallocated to supports for students 1% soft landing $1.3M leaders to allocate highest need students experiencing partnership fund and • Resource room soft • $3M in new funding homelessness put on resources for students landing of $1M WSF for $5M experiencing for highest need • $1.3M reserve for low homelessness students performing schools • 20 new FTEs in nurses, psychologists, social workers • Additional $2.5M • Launching new • $2M in increased soft • School leadership FY20 changes through the Opportunity budget website landing including development Index for our highest across-the-board 2% need students • Maintain reserve for • Additional $0.6M for low performing schools 8 vocational education

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS In the last six years, we have increased per pupil spending over 25% with school budgets growing slightly faster than overall spending Per Pupil Spending Total GF Budget $25,000 $1,200 $1.139M Millions $20,693 $1,000 $938M 25% $20,000 $524M $16,527 46% $800 $15,000 $440M 47% $600 $10,000 $400 $614M 54% $498M $5,000 53% $200 $0 $0 FY14 FY20 FY14 FY20 $PP on school $8,782 $11,178 9 School Budgets School Supports and Central budgets

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS The additional revenue has funded growth in teaching staff and improvement of staff to student ratios Teaching Staff per 100 Students Teaching Staff 12 7000 11.29 +388 6,213 10.26 5,825 6000 10 5000 8 4000 6 3000 4 2000 2 1000 0 0 FY14 FY20E FY14 FY20E 10

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Enrollment update Summary of major enrollment shifts • Overall enrollment declined by about 1,200 students compared to October of last year. This is the largest Overall single-year decline and is the first time in which there have been 2 consecutive years of enrollment decline since WSF was first implemented in FY12. • Enrollment declines are widespread and consistent across neighborhoods, with the largest regional Neighborhoods declines in East Boston and Dorchester. • K1 enrollment is down 50 students this year. We expect this is a one year phenomenon and that K1 K1 enrollment next year will be back to its peak level from the SY1718 school year. • Enrollment in traditional middle schools has declined by roughly 1,800 students since 2011-12. Enrollment Middle in the middle grades will likely be relatively stable over the next 2 years, as larger cohorts of students are Schools moving through the middle grades. But the decline will begin again in a few years when those cohorts are replaced by smaller cohorts currently in the upper-elementary grades. • High Schools are feeling financial pressure because of historically small 9th and 11th grade cohorts this High Schools year that will result in historically small 10th and 12th grade cohorts next year. 11

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Opportunity Index (OI) The Opportunity Index is a tool to identify student need through all available and significant sources of data outside of what the system historically accounts for Neighborhood Individual Characteristics Past Performance ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ Academic Economically Chronic Attainment Disadvantaged Absenteeism ⁃ ⁃ Custodianship Ever Suspended + + ⁃ ⁃ Safety ELA and Math ⁃ Physical Disorder Course Failures ⁃ ⁃ Socioeconomic ELA and Math Status MCAS Failures Each school receives an Opportunity Index Score between .01-.99; this score is a weighted composite of the neighborhood factors, individual student characteristics, and student past performance of each school’s population. 12

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Based on community feedback, we made changes to the underlying model New Variables Changes to Existing Variables We added a number of Revised past performance indicators to be continuous student specific variables • characteristics: Chronic absenteeism → Attendance rate • • How often a student moved Ever suspended → Number of suspensions • If a student lives in public Changes to neighborhood level factors • housing Socioeconomic status → Median Household • Whether or not the student Income • was a recent immigrant Added % of Population that is Foreign Born • Removed Custodianship, an aggregate metric of neighborhood care All of these changes are predictive of student achievement 13