Opportunity Scholarship Program, making it difficult for key city leaders to fully rebuke the legislation without risking necessary funding for public schools. D.C. Public Schools receives $906 million in annual funding, with $762 million coming from local coffers. D.C. Public Schools is pouring money into bolstering its neighborhood schools, and allocating more money to vouchers and less to traditional public schools could compromise the efforts. Bowser said she left her meeting with Trump thinking that he had a grasp of the D.C. school system. “He seemed to know about D.C. schools,” Bowser said.

Source: Washington Post January 28, 2017 23:01 UTC