I was surprised to hear on NPR this morning that a public school in Washington, DC was renovated to the tune of $65 million. So I checked to see what the annual budget for the DC school district is ($773 million) and found this:

With 23 schools slated to close starting next school year, monies allocated for schools increased to $537 million from $493 million in FY ’08.

The Best of Kathryn Muratore