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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In summary:

DCPS costs more.

Credibility of saying otherwise:  0

Dead horse:  well beaten[/quote]

Demonstrate you have a brain by showing how these two statements may be compatible:

1) as a whole, the cost per pupil at dcps schools is higher than charters

2) specific dcps schools, such as oyster, may well cost less, per pupil, than specific charter schools

Net net: cost itself doesn't seem to be the cause of high or low school performance. Don't we have more important things to deal with?[/quote]

Demonstrate that you have a brain by understanding once and for all that Oyster costs significantly more than $11,000 per student, because the $11,000 figure that keeps getting thrown around is basically just staffing cost and discretionary spending, and does not include the cost of their buildings, the heat, electric bill and other utility bills, does not include textbooks, school lunches and so on - and those are significant costs.  And, when you include those costs, it runs the tab significantly higher than the comparable cost for a charter.  None of the DCPS individual school budget sheets reflect the full cost, it's not as though Oyster is any special case of spending less per student than other DCPS schools.

Overall, DCPS schools cost significantly more per student than the charters do.

The only thing I will agree on is that in this case, cost per student does not correlate with school performance.[/quote]

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