Budget
The budget for FY 2009–10 was $773 million. DCPS spent $10,200 (1999 adj. dollars) in expenditures-per-pupil in 1989–90. A decade later, in 1999–2000, expenditures had increased to $11,500. Although a $1‚500 increase was not a significant change in the District’s budget, it reflected DCPS’s failure to regulate their spending or at least bring it closer to the state average of $8,000 after ten years. The national average expenditure-for-students in 1990 (in 1999 dollars) was $6,000. In the 1998–99 school year, the District received 16.5% of its total revenues for elementary and secondary education from federal sources in contrast to the 7.1% national average.
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