Let's fill'er up folks...
Posted on 02/12/2016 12:45:02 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
Washington, D.C., public schools consistently underperform relative to the rest of the country, while having the highest per-pupil revenue in the nation.
D.C. revenue exceeds $29,000 per pupil every year, while graduation rates hover at about 64 percent and only one-third of its fourth-graders read at a proficient level. Clearly the "spend more" model has not been working for the families of Washington, D.C.
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In many cases it would be gone in a week!
A mom with 3 kids could stay home and get $87,000 a year for home schooling.
Good Lord!!! you’re right.
my mom remembers a few books and an apple at lunch in the 30s.
She’s a nurse and quite bright.
would be surprised if school cost a grand a student per year in today’s dollars.
The crack dealers would make so much money that they would move to the French Riviera.
Donald Trump addressed this in his announcement speech to run for president.
Trump: And they’re tired of spending more money on education than any nation in the world per capita, than any nation in the world, and we are 26th in the world, 25 countries are better than us in education. And some of them are like third world countries.
End — end Common Core. Common Core should — it is a disaster. Bush is totally in favor of Common Core. I don’t see how he can possibly get the nomination. He’s weak on immigration. He’s in favor of Common Core. How the hell can you vote for this guy? You just can’t do it. We have to end — education has to be local.
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They could buy more drugs?
They wouldn’t get money, they would get a school voucher.
I'd open up 'Rims 'n' grillz' - over priced wheels for your car and caps for your teeth.
So a class of 25 gets $725,000.00 per nine month period?
Tell me again how we don’t spend enough on education.
It would have to be a voucher system where the money went directly to the school. Otherwise you are right if yo mama’s a crack ho it would be gone in a week.
Our Nation’s Capitol is just like Zimbabwe, with too much money!
When you compare the cost per pupil per year with the percent of students who are competent at their grade level, they are spending in excess of $1 million for each student who is competent at grade level.
We no longer have the luxury of being able to afford the old blue model of having government run the schools. It is time to let parents choose where to send their children.
For 1/3 of that money, private education would compete for students and guarantee test scores.
Of course, they would require the right to expel some students.
Those parents controlling the money would lead to little or no education for the kids, in many cases. Lots more booze, drugs and smokes, though.
DC's total public school revenues are staggering, even adjusting for the fact that DC is a city, not a state, so there are no low cost areas to offset high urban costs. I played with the numbers a few years ago. High school costs more than elementary school. Taking the differential in tuition in the Catholic system as a baseline, comparing elementary and secondary tuitions and applying the same differential to DCPS, the District is spending enough on high school students to enroll them in fairly pricey boarding schools and have money back.
DC has the highest paid teachers in the country, a very high ratio of administrative staff, and heavy costs for various remedial services. Good students, however, are seriously shortchanged, and 20,000 students are in private schools, where their tuitions are generally less than the DCPS price tag. Liberals, however, will continue to insist that the problem in urban public education is a lack of funding.
Since when did the education budget of any governmental agency have anything to do with the children??
Not since I was in elementary school in the 60’s, it was probably early 70’s when it became the Teachers and Administrators.
DC money doesn’t pay for local schools. School bonds and property taxes pay for the school kids go to.
DC’s money is all unnecessary bureaucrats.
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