San Francisco Uses Weighed Student Formulas To Track School Needs
What Weighted Student Formulas Do
One of the primary features of the WSF is that it allows San Francisco Schools more flexibility than the previous system, called the staffing ratios model. Through staffing ratios, the central office basically directed school sites to spend the bulk of their resources in a particular way, through allocations of staff and a small supplies budget. This system gave schools little control over their financial resources. Under the WSF, each school site receives a budget denominated in dollars instead of positions and decides what staff and non-staff items to purchase with those dollars. Under this approach, each school has more room to design and use innovative instructional programs that match the specific characteristics and needs of its students, parents, and community. Central administration helps and monitors schools in a number of important ways, but it shares more decisions with principals and local school governance teams called School Site Councilsthe people who are most familiar with what their schools need.
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