• The Reimagine School Funding project team is committed to transparency and plan to share meeting resources below. 

    • November 2022


      • Funding Policy Working Group

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Understand how this Working Group will work in partnership with other stakeholders to deliver on Reimagine School Funding project goals

          • Develop a collective baseline understanding of today’s funding system

          • Start to build the potential path forward to develop funding policy options

          • Everyone feels excited and ready to get started

        • Presentation materials


      December 2022

      • Steering Committee Meeting

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Gather as a Steering Committee together to establish purpose and scope and build community as a team working to ReImagine BPS Funding

          • Begin to explore equity values and Priority populations through structured reflection

        • Meeting Recording link

        • Presentation materials


      • Principals Working Group

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Explore targeted universalism as a framework 

          • Reflect and inquire on school funding data

          • Brainstorm information that we want to gather from other principals in the district

        • Presentation materials


      • Funding Policy Design Working Group

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Explore targeted universalism as a framework for understanding how funding and outcomes come together

          • Begin to develop preliminary priority populations and identify schools that may be interesting to learn more about

          • Identify action steps to start unpacking deeper insights and inform the policy direction

        • Pre-Read materials

        • Presentation materials


      January 2023

      • Steering Committee Meeting

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Gather as a Steering Committee together to provide perspective and expertise on funding equity challenges

          • Capture feedback on district fact base and school quality guarantee and the dimensions of equity approach

          • Consider a Design Justice framework for ReImagining the BPS funding design 

        • Meeting Recording link

        • Presentation materials


      • Principals Working Group

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Document examples and leverage storytelling of resource equity 

          • Develop a shareable document that identifies patterns and insights of funding challenges

        • Presentation materials


      • Funding Policy Design Working Group

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Listen and reflect on input from Steering, Principals, ESSER, and Inclusion teams

          • Coalesce around the story that is starting to emerge around inclusion and priority populations

          • Begin to identify priorities we must specifically focus on as we build a funding policy

        • Presentation materials



      February 2023

      • Steering Committee Meeting

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Consider core components of funding model that should be intentionally built to disrupt historical inequity

          • Outline and critique our draft desired core components for the BPS funding model

          • Set guiding principles for reimagined school funding policy based on fact base, ESSR findings, student outcome data, equity values, students central to the funding formula, community engagement, principal feedback, and school quality guarantee tenets 

        • Meeting recording link

        • Presentation materials

       

      • Principals Working Group

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Apply a human-centered lens on the funding process

          • Begin to consider policy options by looking at a draft framework

        • Presentation materials


      • Funding Policy Design Working Group

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Preview draft tenets of potential new funding policy, as heard from Steering, Principals, Engagement, and previous FPD meetings

          • Brainstorm benefits & considerations for the potential framework from the group’s perspective

          • Identify compliance and process considerations for each of the categories we need to integrate

        • Presentation materials



      March 2023

      • Steering Committee Meeting

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Consider core components of funding model that should be intentionally built to disrupt historical inequity

          • Outline and critique our draft desired components for the BPS funding model (v2), with a focus on Foundation

          • Discuss reimagined school funding policy implications based on draft BPS inclusion strategy

        • Meeting recording link

        • Presentation materials


      • Principals Working Group

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Apply a human-centered lens on the funding process

          • Outline and critique our draft desired components for the BPS funding model (v2), with a focus on Foundation

        • Presentation materials


      • Funding Policy Design Working Group

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Review the updated v2.0 funding policy framework

          • Review and make meaning of feedback from Steering and Principals

          • Begin to unpack tradeoffs and implementation considerations of guarantee vs. autonomy decisions

        • Presentation materials



      April 2023

      • Whole Group Meeting (Steering, Principals & Funding Policy Design)

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Assess alignment in our beliefs, priorities, and expectations all across working groups 

          • Engage multiple perspectives and explore tension points

          • Take a “system wide” lens on the challenges and opportunities in our shared work

        • Presentation Materials

        • April meeting was in person and no recording available

      May 2023

      • Whole Group Meeting (Steering, Principals & Funding Policy Design)

        • Meeting Objectives:

          • Move ideas from theoretical to concrete

          • Provide guidance on how equity needs to show-up in allocation decisions

          • Understand the roadmap for work ahead

        • Presentation Materials

        • Post-Read Materials

    June 2023

      • Whole Group Meeting (Steering, Principals & Funding Policy Design)  
        • Meeting Objectives  
          • Review project scope and RSF areas of influence
          • Share perspectives on instructional funding priorities 
          • Establish what the groups would like to see included in an Instructional Fact Base
        • Presentation Materials
        • Meeting recording link 

    July 2023

    August 2023

      • Meeting objectives
        • Review our shared goals, feedback to date, and how it has informed a draft RSF funding policy
        • Compare the draft funding policy to the existing policy with respect to prioritized student groups
        • Provide feedback on some key remaining considerations, particularly across funding use and budget process
      • Presentation Materials
      • Meeting recoring link

     

    September 2023

      • Meeting objectives
        • Understand the draft funding policy and hear
          feedback
        •  Compare the draft new funding policy to the
          existing funding policy, both overall and with
          respect to impact on prioritized student
          groups 
        • Analyze how the draft funding policy could
          impact the daily work of a school
        • Discuss prioritization of incremental
          investments
        • Provide feedback on some key remaining
          considerations, particularly across funding use
          and budget process 
      • Pre-read materials
      • Presentation materials
      • Meeting recording link 

     

    *Please note that links will be updated following the actual event.