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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents are letting DCPS off the hook by funding the schools through the PTA. If you want something for your kids, it's a better use of your resources to cut a check to the PTA than to lobby DCPS. DCPS makes it that way.

I come from Massachusetts. There, state law bans PTA's from paying for school expenses. State law also requires equality in funding. So if parents in a rich district want something for their kids, they can't pay for it themselves, and they can't lobby for extra resources for their school district. They have to lobby for extra resources for the entire state education system.

Coincidentally, Massachusetts has the nation's highest average SAT score. (DC is 47th out of 51).

How did the state law get this way? Massachusetts has very powerful teachers unions. The unions pushed for them as a way of increasing school spending.

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Massachusetts, the state, doesn't come anywhere close to the poverty of DC. That's the issue- we don't have wealthy suburbs to draw from. Apples to oranges.[/quote]

Median household income, 2014:
District of Columbia	$65,124
Massachusetts	$64,859

Per Capita income, 2014: 
District of Columbia $45,877ts  
Massachusetts  $36,593

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income
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Interesting![/quote]

No, it's not. You can compare Boston to DC, but not DC to Massachusetts this way. Again, apples to oranges.[/quote]

It is apples to apples -- income vs. income, SAT scores vs. SAT scores.

If you were to compare DC vs. Boston, income vs. income, SAT scores vs. SAT scores, it would be even more damning for DC.[/quote]

This is false once you control for demographics. The high-end of DCPS performs better than the comparable group in every other major school district. [/quote]

"Control for demographics" is the central tenet of DC Exceptionalism. We're different here![/quote]

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