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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington spent around $20K/student in 2014. Even if it gave $10K/student get send some to private or just paid another district, it could help. I'd rather them fix the problem in the county and rent the space here though.

http://www.insidenova.com/news/arlington/arlington-per-student-spending-again-tops-the-region/article_aec435ec-6e4d-11e4-993c-635d5ab85d84.html[/quote]

I don't think the math works.  As one PP pointed out above, it would be unfair for APS to offer to pay for private schools for kids who are currently in APS but not for kids who are currently in private schools (but eligible for APS).  Presumably every Arlington resident kid currently in local private schools would be entitled to these vouchers, although they may be able to do some means-testing.  So the program would cost a lot more than just $10,000 x the number of "excess" APS students.

Also, while I have no real idea how much $$ private schools cost these days, many are likely well over $10,000, so we'd either not have many takers or we'd have to raise the money.

And then there's the feedback effect of pumping government money into private schools--I would assume that the private schools would do what private colleges have done since the advent of the GI Bill and raise their tuitions to keep increasing the amount of government money flowing in.

Even if you don't ascribe cynical motives to the people setting prices for private school tuition, the presence of extra money and extra demand, with limited potential for supply-side expansion, would likely drive up the market-clearing prices for private schools, which again means that the cost would be higher than [current tuition] x [current excess enrollment].

That said, is there any legal impediment to APS setting up a new public school in Fairfax?  Until recently, Falls Church City's high school was located in Fairfax.  And of course we also send kids to TJ in Fairfax.  Not sure how much that really improves our options, but it's probably available.[/quote]

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