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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No exaggeration.  Divide the DCPS budget by the number of students.

Meanwhile, divide any charter's budget by number of students and you get a far smaller number.[/quote]

That budget includes sped transportation, sped education tuition and teacher pensions. Again, your number is a fallacy. [/quote]

The charter school budget numbers ALSO include special education and teacher benefits.  The charter school numbers include EVERYTHING.

You're claiming it's because of special needs - but I've done the math.  The overall average works out to over $30,000 per student in DCPS.  The claim has been made that the real cost figure is only $11,000 per student in DCPS.  If that's the reality, and given that only 13% are special needs students, there would have to be a cost of $150,000 per special needs student in order to have it balance out to the $30,000 per student average cost overall across DCPS.

I don't think anyone here believes that it costs $150,000 per special needs in DCPS, but certainly there's plenty of anecdotal information about special needs kids being sent out by DCPS to attend private schools at an expense of over $50,000 per student - and likewise, nobody here believes that it costs $11,000 per student in DCPS, as that figure was already debunked in another thread and was shown to not include the building, utilities, school lunches, textbooks, and many other big ticket items - the real cost per student for non-special-needs is far higher than $11,000 per student.[/quote]

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