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

DCPS costs more.

Credibility of saying otherwise:  0

Dead horse:  well beaten[/quote]

Lot of heat. How about some light?

I thought I'd look into the numbers, because I couldn't see where the $30M comes from.  Here's the mayor's budget page: http://cfo.dc.gov/node/464702

DCPS serves 47,247 students.
DCPS's budget is $830 Million
That's $17,575 per student

Public Charter schools have 37,410
Their budget is $616.5 Million
That's $16,479 per student.

So where does $30K per student come from?

It must be:
$31 million - teacher's retirement fund
$80 million - Special Ed. in non-DCPS schools tuition (down from $120M last year!)
$88 million - Special Ed. transportation

Add all that in and you get $21,787 per student -- but that's still not $30K, so what's missing?

$436 million for the State Superintendent of Education

Add all [b]that [/b]up and divide by 47,247 and you get $31,015 per student, all in.

To be fair, you have to add in the Public Charter School Board's budget of $4.2 million, raising the total cost of charters to $16,591 per student.

But what is the State Superintendent of Education, and what's it doing with the $436M?
The budget document says the SSI does this:
* manages and distributes federal funding to education providers 
* develops state-level education policies and standards 
* provides technical support to increase effectiveness among education providers
* administers for the District, Special Education Transportation; Non-public Tuition; and [i]District of Columbia Public Charter Schools payments[/i] (oops?)

So. Now you have the data. Argue about whether non-public tuition, special ed. transportation, and OSSI serve exclusively DCPS rather than charter schools.

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