$726 million is the total amount allotted for DCPS by Mayor Bowser

$25 million increase in local funds for DCPS from last year. Nearly every penny will go to schools.

1500+ new students projected to enter DCPS next year.

4 new schools will open next year:

• Brookland Middle School will provide students with an intensive arts and language experience.
• Van Ness Elementary will provide high quality early childhood education opportunities.
• River Terrace Education Campus will support special education students with intensive needs.
• The former Amos 1 campus (recently occupied by a charter school) will become a DCPS school. Staff, students, and school leadership will be absorbed into DCPS.

$45 million to support at-risk students with the greatest needs.

$13 million in new funds for high schools

20+ elective courses at every neighborhood high school—such as choir, marching band, yearbook, debate, African-American literature, accounting, and SAT prep.

6+ Advanced Placement courses will be offered at every neighborhood high school.

1 coordinator per high school to help students schedule and explore sports and clubs; we’ll also fund extra-curriculars and clubs. We’ll also ensure schools with newly renovated pools (Dunbar, Ballou, Woodson, and Cardozo) have the staff they need for students to benefit from the pool.

$1.3 million to expand opportunities to support and train more students for careers in high-wage, high-growth fields such as engineering, hospitality industries and information technology.

4+ rigorous, high-quality, teacher-created new model activities for students to make schools more equal.

$1 million for books and periodicals for our schools.

$1 million investment to support an extended school-year pilot at Raymond Education Campus. Raymond students will get extra instructional time and will help DCPS make plans to expand extended year programming to other schools in the future.

$10,000 for every middle grades school to buy new athletic equipment. In addition, we’ll provide funding for socio-emotional support for students, teachers, excursions, extended day programming.

200+ new school-based jobs created.

500+ literacy mentors for our students as part of Empowering of Males of Color. Private funding will be used for Proving What’s Possible (school-level) awards to support innovative approaches to improving outcomes for students with the greatest needs for the 2015-16 school year, as well as the new all-male school east of the River.

115 schools (all of them) next year will offer art, music, world language, physical education and library programming, as well as increased social and emotional supports, and opportunities to increase student interest and engagement in school.

For more information, visit the FY16 Fiscal Report Card.