The District’s chief financial officer says the city’s charter schools are more than $2 million better off than he thought.
“The spending pressure for the D.C. Charter Schools has been revised from $9.4 million to $7 million, a reduction of $2.4 million,” Natwar Gandhi wrote on Wednesday to Mayor Vincent Gray and Council Chairman Kwame Brown. The Washington Examiner obtained the letter on Friday.
Pedro Ribeiro, a spokesman for Gray, said the mayor will revise his supplemental budget package, slated for a vote on Tuesday, to reduce the money allocated for the charter schools. The revisions will bring the supplmental’s value down to $77.1 million.
The package also includes $20 million to pay District employees for furlough days they had to take in 2011 and $25 million for D.C. Public Schools.
