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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And are people proposing that we tax funds raised by private schools and charters as well, and redistribute those?  Not sure why one type of family giving is bad and should be shared but others shouldn't.[/quote]

DCPS is one LEA, and parent resources should be pooled across it. There's already a DCPS foundation -- the same one that funds the study abroad program, and has brought things like the bicycle initiative to elementary schools. Just direct the parent raised funds there, in addition to the corporate and nonprofit funds DCPS collects.

Each charter is its own LEA. Multi-school charters like KIPP already redistribute funds they raise across their network.

Private schools are private.

All are tax-deductible contributions.

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DCPS already shares resources across schools.  Just check out the per pupil funding across schools, and they are dramatically different.  Upper NW schools receive substantially lower funding per student than do other schools around the District. And this makes sense -- DCPS redistributes money to where it feels it has greater need.  So it *should* do so.  Now DCPS might claim that it doesn't think about PTA funds when it makes this calculation, but that is just garbage.  Janney raising money means that DCPS lowers its per pupil funding, probably not $1 for $1, but by a noticeable amount.[/quote]

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