[SoftballMominVA]

The bolded statement shocks me that she was able to get that change in such a union stronghold as DC

Can she get the schools back on track? The jury is still out. I'm waiting to see what type of budget she proposes

[SoftballMominVA]

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[pnh102]

Can she get the schools back on track?

Were DC public schools ever "on track?"

The only thing that can save students in DCPS is if the Federal government were to impose mandatory school choice for all students in the system.

[theBuckwheat]

About three years ago, the Washington Times ran a piece about the cost of educating one child in the DC public schools and the quality of the results. At the time, it cost over $13,000 per pupil per year and less than 20% of those who graduated were proficient at their grade level in science or math.

Let’s do our own math here:

12 years x $13k = $156,000 (cost to graduate one student)

$156k / 0.20 = $780,000 (cost to graduate a single student proficient in math or science).

The Left/MSM made much about declaring Bush’s strategy in Iraq a failure. How high does the pile of failure have to be before the Left/MSM will allow the idea to creep into the public discourse on education that the model failed long ago.

Since when is it successful public policy to spend well in excess of $3/4 million to graduate a single proficient student from a public school system? I would ask how high the amount has to be before failure is obvious, but I already know the answer: no matter how high it gets, we are still guilty of underfunding it.

(The sad joke on the taxpayers is that the per pupil expenditure figures don’t include the capital costs, such as buildings, real estate and capital repairs. It many not even include the cost of the school buses. So, the cost per pupil is really much higher than stated.)