It’s more than $13,000 I’m sure. Newark, NJ, is from $22,000 to $24,000 per kid (depending on who you hear it from), half of the 40,000 students graduate, 20% of them go on to college where they have to take remedial courses and some guy just gave Newark $100 million which will probably wind up in some sort of slush fund since so far no one knows what to do with it.
Zuckerberg should have set up a scholarship fund for parents who wanted to pull their kids out of the public schools, but that’s not politically correct and might damage his empire.
So, spending more money is not the solution to the problem. The real problem is the students and teachers. It's hard to attract good teachers to work in a war zone full of dolts. The students that had any interest in academic achievement were attracted to the charter school. Ditto for the teachers. Self selection for academic excellence. The rest are present because the government requires them to be present. Neither party is much interested in education. Teachers are present for a pay check. Parents are happy to have a government child care and feeding program. Students do as the government mandates. Politicians get to pander to the teacher's union to buy more votes. The rest of us get to pay for this travesty.
Yur number is too low...try 28170/per pupil....with TOTAL DC education budget = to GDP of Belize!!!!
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/02/dc-public-schools-129-trillion-28170.html