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Reply to "Where does the $3.8 billion go"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was in grad school (in education) in 2003, we looked at the budget of our respective school systems (it was a class of educators from many counties--Arlington, FCPS, DC, Montgomery, PG, Loudoun). At that time FCPS's was appx $2.2B. I am stunned that less than 20 years later, it is almost $4B. That is a staggering amount of money. PP is correct re: the amount which goes to the people that make the system run. In 2003, it was 85%. I am pleasantly surprised that that total has risen to almost 90%. I would like to see a citation for the claim "for every 2 people in the classroom, there is 1 that isn't". [/quote] This is an average increase of 2.7% per year over that time period. Inflation has averaged 2.6% since 2003. Sure it is a stager ring amount of money but context helps here.[/quote] Good context. I didn't do the math (should have!)--it does put the increase in perspective. Thank you. [/quote]
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