Asbury Park spends about $32,000 per year per student, one of the worst districts in the country
Newark spends about $29,000 per year per student, one of the worst districts in the country
Camden spends about $25,000 per year per student, one of the worst districts in the country
Tuition at a private school $25,000 per year, per student, some of the best schools in the country
And yet, the liberals tell us everyday that we need to spend more money on public education......
Insanity
Anyone know where the 100 million dollars Facebook donated to the Newark public school went? Nobody can find it....
Newton,MA $18.000.00 per year——great schools.
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Newark spends about $29,000 per year per student...
For a 25-student classroom, that's $750,000.
If you figure $150,000 for the teacher, salary and benefits, that still leaves a $600,000 surplus per classroom.
Repeat that for each classroom in a given school.
WTF does it all go?
Econ 101 teaches that monopolies provide bad service/products at a high cost. When the monopoly is governmental, the problems are an order of magnitude worse. This author unfortunately continues to provide fairly good critiques of the system, but then tells people that government schools can be “reformed”. They can’t be reformed any more than Soviet collective farms could be reformed. The only solution is to bring the system down by opting out and never, ever voting for a school bond levy or other tax. School “reformers” have been “reforming the government school system for the 50’s. 60 or so years, and trillions of dollars, of school “reform” has produced a system that is so destructive that most of our expensively institutionalized government school students are incapable of playing useful economic roles and are unfit to call themselves citizens. Anyone who calls for “school reform” is utterly irresponsible.
More than half, over 50 million, went to the teachers' union as "backdated raises," that is, bribes, to even get them to talk about any kind of structural reform. A lot of the rest went to "consultants".
There's a book about it called The Prize.