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Mort I appreciate your thoughtful analysis, particularly of the bond. We badly need to repair schools, but I couldn’t agree with you more the price tag is just too high. We need to wait for a better bond and stretch our dollars. As the PPS budget advisory chair I’m also a big fan of outcomes driven spending and have seen precious little benchmarking by PPS. For $860 million a I year in general funds for about 40k students we are not seeing improving student outcomes.

The truly laughable statistic that the superintendent trotted out was that 98.7% of K through five classrooms were at or below class size targets in 2024-25. These targets were made up by PPS and not benchmarked to anything, not the quality education model set by the state or national models and I can tell you class size as well as funding varies quite a lot across the district. For the nerds in the room, see PPS budget book 2.

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