D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray pledged throughout his 2010 mayoral campaign to end years of systematic city underfunding of the District’s public charter school students compared to their peers in the city’s traditional public school system. Yet, after three budgets, he has failed to deliver on his promise.
The mayor’s fiscal 2014 budget underfunds the District’s public charter school students by more than $1,700 per student in school operating funds, compared to students enrolled in DC Public Schools.
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