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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The anti-Kadera people have not read the 6th grade math word problem that was worked out earlier around page 11 which shows that she actually was basically right to question APS's representations re busing costs that were given by APS as justification for moving McKinley.  APS told McKinley that it was the best choice to move because only 28% of its kids were walkable whereas 60% of Reed's kids would be walkable.  That means that APS represented it would have about 420 out of 700 kids at Reed be walkable, whereas it said McKinley only had about 224 out of 800 kids be walkable.  Even if you add what turned out to be ONLY 40 KIDS FROM TUCKAHOE that ultimately would bus to tuckahoe instead of walk to Reed that people are complaining about -- even if you add that back in to the Reed total that still gives you 380 walkable kids at Reed and 320 bused kids at Reed, whereas McKinley had ~ 224 walkable kids and 586 bused kids.  McKinley's supposed old 586 bused kids is so much more of a busing budget than Reed's supposed new 320 bused kids - why then should Reed require, in addition to the old McKinley budget which included the money for those 586 kids, ALSO an extra $380K for additional busing costs at Reed?  Nobody besides those Tuckahoe kids who were walkable ultimately got moved out of Reed, so those numbers shouldn't be off by that much if APS's original representations were right that Reed was very very walkable and McKinley wasn't, whoever Kadera argued for re the Reed move.

Kadera's point is not really wrong in questioning the validity of the school board's representations to McKinley in the first place, even if you account for that small number of Tuckahoe kids, and even if you add in some "frictional costs" as some earlier PP described.  It seems like there is something funky going on and it's not Kadera.
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I don't think you fully understood that discussion.[/quote]

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