Posted on 05/14/2014 4:20:00 AM PDT by cruzader
The public schools in Washington, D.C., spent $29,349 per pupil in the 2010-2011 school year, according to the latest data from National Center for Education Statistics, but in 2013 fully 83 percent of the eighth graders in these schools were not "proficient" in reading and 81 percent were not "proficient" in math.
These are the government schools in our nation's capital city -- where for decades politicians of both parties have obstreperously pushed for more federal involvement in education and more federal spending on education.
Government has manifestly failed the families who must send their children to these schools, and the children who must attend them.
Under the auspices of the National Center for Education Statistics, the federal government periodically tests elementary and high school students in various subjects, including reading and math. These National Assessment of Educational Progress tests are scored on a scale of 500, and student achievement levels are rated as "basic," "proficient" and "advanced."
In 2013, students nationwide took NAEP reading and math tests. When the NCES listed the scores of public-school eighth graders in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, D.C. came in last in both subjects.
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I “lived” in WDC for over 30 years. It was a scandal-a-day. Nothing surprises me about that corrupt town...nothing. Rest assured that corruption will continue there until it is vaporized.
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...on they Obamaphones.
“DC Schools: $29,349 Per Pupil, 83 Percent Not Proficient in Reading”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiRGRvE_Wqg
“When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.” -
AFT leader Albert Shanker
Interesting. Do you know where or do you have a link?
Just for comparison, the $29,349 figure for DCPS is three to four times the tuition at the typical Catholic elementary school in DC. It is also more than the tuition at any of the Catholic high schools in DC except for Georgetown Prep (boys), where tuition is in the low $30's. Stone Ridge (Bethesda, MD, girls) is $29,500 for high school. The typical Catholic high school in DC is in the $12-17,000 range. A couple of the other "name" Catholic schools are in the mid-20's. Prices are a bit higher for the "name" secular private schools
Sounds like Austin and some other area schools. KLBJ has two stories on this morning. One is about an LEO in Bastrop HS tazing a 17 yr old who was involved in a fight. The kid fell and now has brain damage.
The other is about the Austin fire department using a test that DOJ has ruled as racist against minorities. The candidates had no clue to the meaning of some words. You think schooling had anything to do with that?
We all know that if more money were to be spent, that number $29,349 should be doubled, then the number could be moved from 83% to 93% very quickly. (Liberal Logic)
Wow. I did not know this.
FMCDH(BITS)
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It’s the culture more than the race. If they were more influenced by Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas than gangsta rap it would be a different story.
Interesting. So with just 20 in a room the funding would provide about $590,000.
wow. That is insane
There may be some that genuinely believed there’d be an improvement in education,
but the string pullers have another goal - separating people from the money they earn.
Well, obviously, it’s that 4% that’s oppressing the others and keeping them from reading.
It is hard to find unified statistics. Taking enrollment in DCPS and public charters as the universe, 44% of DC public school students are currently in charters. This, however, still does not include enrollment in private/parochial schools or homeschooled students.
At the high school level, in regular DCPS, School Without Walls, which is academically selective and highly sought after, is generally regarded as excellent. Wilson, in upper Northwest, is not at Walls' level but has made great strides and has a majority of the melanin deprived students in DCPS. Together, per the DCPS website, Wilson and Walls have a combined 460 white students, which is 88% of the total given in the article. Most of the remainder are at Duke Ellington, which is a magnet school for the arts.
That said, if you include charters, private schools, and homeschoolers, DCPS probably has less than a 50% market share of all DC students. As you probably suspect, the melanin deprived cohort is mostly in private schools or charters.
I always figure education that way. I set aside a really nice cost for the teacher like 100,000, that includes 30% for benefits and retirement. I know it’s a little high, but easy to calculate and which union would argue that?
So anything above that would fund the front office, supplies, maintenance, and district administration.
So in this scenario the classroom tax budget would be 590,000 for 20 student per and 8 classrooms in an elementary school would have $3,020,000 for everything out of the classroom expenses.
Seems way too high.
If the cost per student was $40,000 times 25 students, there would $1 million in funding per classroom.
Issues funding workers comp, law suits and settlements, and retiree income.
and where is all that money going?
“Close enough for gubbamint work”
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