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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just looked it up.

DCPS gives Janney, everything included, $10k per kid.

It gives CW Harris $19k per kid. And $15-18k per kid to a ton other of the "lowest-performing" schools.

Crazy world.[/quote]

That seems right to me.[/quote]

Actually, it's not.  "Pay" or spend in this case needs to be linked to performance.  Rather than year after year giving more money to the lowest performing schools, how about figuring out why they are low performing.  Maybe the principal is a DCPS lifer who rides a desk and just punches a clock.  Maybe it's the school culture.  Maybe more school security officers are needed.[/quote]

Exactly!!!!

Schools that do a good job educating should get more resources.

Schools that don't should be turned around and, if not fixed, closed. Rewarding failure is idiotic.[/quote]

As noted before you guys that funding is actually tied to kids and not schools. So you don’t get more money for failing, but you do get more money if you have homeless or tanf kids or sped kids, but you’re required to use that money for supplemental services for them. Ditto SPED money which of course has to be spent to meet IEPs. Theoretically that should work hand in hand with school choice so money leaves with kids if they choose to go elsewhere.

What you’re describing in terms of closing schools for low performance is the charter school system, although in practice closing schools is really messy and I’m not sure they do it as much as intended in the original theory. It doesn’t always work in lockstep with parental choice pressures for example.

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