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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charters have no choice but to keep hiring new teachers. Across the board they cannot afford to pay for experience. Our HRCS lost a lot of teachers this year, but none of the ones who left had more than 3-4 years of experience to begin with.[/quote]

That's not totally true.  Some charters are successful at keeping experienced teachers, but agreed it is tough for them to match DCPS pay at the higher levels.  The funding disparity really comes into play then.[/quote]

why is there the student funding disparity?  doesn't seem legal.  I know we can't match the bonus thing (and we don't want to - don't want teacher salaries tied to test scores in a charter) but base salary  should match.  Then charter teachers are just giving up tenure and bonuses.[/quote]

It's how the funding streams are set up.  Each system gets the same "base amount" per student, but charters don't get enough facilities funding, so they sometimes dip into their educational amount to cover facilities costs.  It's not a good idea, but sometimes they have to do it.  Then layer on the fact that every year DCPS gets additional funding outside of the formula, plus the additional services they get from the District government that a lot of charters don't get.  Then you also add the bonus money that DCPS gets for teachers.  It adds up to huge disparities. Page 93 covers the differences in operating costs, pages 82 and 83 show the differences in facilities capital spending.  DCPS spends about $1,900 more per student per year on facilities capital spending, and $1,400 more per student per year in base educational and operations expenses.  This analysis does not include special education funding, which is it's own crazy world.

http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/4%20SYSTEM%20LEVEL%20FINDINGS.pdf

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