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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]

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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Thanks for doing the math and actually (*gasp*) providing facts and figures…not just your opinion.  Now sit back and wait for the anti-DCPS activists to claim that DC public schools still get more money, per pupil (with nothing to back it up) than charters.  You’ll have to keep “subtracting” from the charters’ per pupil funding until it falls below DCPS funding to satisfy those bloodthirsty jackals.  Good luck!  [/quote]

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