Name: __________________________

Baltimore City Public School Budget

Pre-work
Respond to the following questions.

1. What are your immediate thoughts after seeing the Mervo budget presentation?

2. Do you think that Mervo is currently spending money in the best way? Why or why not?

3. What are the best resources/activities at Mervo? Be specific.

4. What are the worst resources/activities at Mervo? Be specific.

5. What are the needs of our school? Why?

6. What programs would be beneficial for the school as a whole? Why?

7. What programs would be beneficial for you personally to succeed at school? Why?

Analyzing the Data

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1. What do you think Mervo should spend the greatest amount of money on?

2. What do you think Mervo spends most of its money on?

Use the information you gained from looking at Mervo’s budget to answer the following
questions:

3. Compared to the list you made in question 1, how does Mervo’s actual budget compare? What
changes would you make to the budget?

Data Deep Dive

Below is Mervo’s total enrollment of students and total funds for the past two school years.
Critically analyze the data and respond to the questions below.

1. Did Mervo gain money or lose money over the past year?

2. How much money did Mervo have for the FY19 (FY19 is the 2019-2020 school year)?
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These are the key priorities for the district this next school year

1. Do you agree
with the priorities?
Why or why not?

2. What priorities
would you add?
Why?

Take Action! Write a letter to the district explaining your thoughts on how Mervo is
currently using our budget and what you believe the needs of our school are. Make sure to use
the data and information from the project you just created!

Rubric
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