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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cost of implementing IMPACT comes nowhere near what the differential is.[/quote]

And how do you know that?  Indirect costs (I.e., central admin. salaries, IMPACT, special DCPS wide programs, etc) can very well account for the "missing" money.  The fact remains that the per pupil spending at Oyster is $11k and some change, compared to much more at LAMB.  I'm really only concerned with Oyster because that is/will be the only DCPS my kids attend.  Until you produce proof that says otherwise, you really have nothing.  Your conjecture simply doesn't count.  If you think that you're on to something, please let the Washington Post know all about it.  Let the pros uncover this vast DCPS funding conspiracy of which you speak.[/quote]

This is not about conspiracies, it's about getting you to use your head and understand the big picture.  All DCPS schools including Oyster benefit from those indirect spending line items, to include the admin line items, textbooks, facilities and those "special DC-wide programs" - there is no "conspiracy" or mystery about it - those things cost money and in many cases are big ticket items - like facilities - and in DCPS, they add a around a million dollars a year for every hundred students, whereas charters are entirely on their own to provide all of those things - they don't get facilities, textbooks, administrative staff or other items furnished to them by DCPS - all the things not shown in those individual school budgets because they are in the overall DCPS budget.   Charters do not get $100 million thrown at them by the city for facilities as was just the case with Dunbar, and that's where some of the cost comes from, as DCPS works its way through various capital improvement projects for its many schools.  The city does not do the same for charters; charters get none of the indirect resource contributions.

Although there have been some thinking exercises presented (such as the one above which dispelled the idea that DCPS spending is higher because of special needs) there's really no great mystery or conjecture about it, nor any need to go running to the media - the Washington Post and others have already reported on average spending per student in DCPS and know well the reality of the situation.  Everyone knows it, the only person trying to deny it is you.

The bottom line IS that average cost is $30,000 per student in the DCPS system when you add direct cost and indirect cost, and that IS the correct number to use when you compare to LAMB or other charters, because the charter numbers include all of their indirect costs as well.[/quote]

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