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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If the link above was already addressed, why don’t you seem to comprehend it?[/b]  It’s clear:  Oyster spent $11,391 per pupil.  The staffing figure includes custodial services/salaries which is a facilities expenditure.  There is also $500,000 allocated for “Specialty Funds,” and $209,291 set aside for “Non Personnel Services.”  How do you know that $709,291 isn’t used to pay for textbooks, facilities or “anything else”?   Oh, that’s right, you don’t know.  You’re just grasping at straws and trying to belittle Oyster’s success…a popular pastime on DCUM.  You have no evidence to prove that DCPS is spending “almost twice as much per student” on Oyster as compared to other charters.  I have facts and figures.  All you have is your worthless opinion.  As far as I’m concerned, Oyster spends less per pupil to educate its students than immersion charters (11K vs. 19k), and with better results.  If you have links showing that more than $11,391 per pupil is spent at Oyster, then post them.  Until then, please be quiet and have a seat. 
Btw, there is no stability in DCPS funding either.  
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Charter schools have to pay rent &/or mortgages. Dumbass.[/quote][/quote]

OK, I've been running the numbers as an impartial third party (my field of expertise is school finance -- no children in any language immersion school). It seems that Oyster Adams receives $11,391 per pupil in combined federal and district allocations. LAMB receives $20,391 per pupil in combined federal and district allocations. Using the DC PCSB budget data, it seems that LAMB spends $3,638 on rent, depreciation, interest, utilities etc). Accounting for these extra expenses that DCPS schools do not bear, LAMB still has a per pupil allocation of $16,753.[/quote]

Keep subtracting, you still aren't at an apples to apples comparison.  Go back and look at all of the other things missing from the Oyster budget sheet like school lunches and everything else.  Plus, I really don't think "discretionary spending" on the Oyster sheet is what you think it is, since it's just 2.7% of the budget.  For example, I seriously doubt it actually does cover textbooks as claimed - and I likewise remember reading that DCPS central office manages the textbooks and many other things that would not be included in the Oyster budget.[/quote]

If you look at the Oyster budget I specifically linked to you will see a breakdown of the school's discretionary spending (i.e. $20,796 for classroom supplies, $12,000 for office supplies, $10,000 for custodial supplies, $800 for school health supplies, $40,000 for computers etc. etc. etc.). With regard to your issue about the managing the textbooks, once upon a time DCPS had a centralized warehouse where they kept the books. They were distributed by the central office but the cost of the books were charged to the schools. If you look at the breakdown of the non-personnel funding you will see there is a budget line for textbooks. Finally, the LAMB budget stipulates that they spend $171,000 on food purchases. That adds $650 per pupil to their expenses.

Like I said earlier, my kids aren't in any kind of language program so I have no agenda. However, there is so much misinformation passing for truth that I wanted to get the actual numbers out there. In this instance, the numbers stipulate that LAMB is amply funded. [/quote]

Thank you!  A voice of reason that actually uses (*gasp*) facts to support her/his position.[/quote]

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