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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^no dog in this fight.  Question, does the per pupil funding amount also include facilities?  It's hard to imagine that there is equal comparison when some schools don't have to spend $ on million dollar mortgages or rent.  Also, I imagine charters have to pay a slightly higher salary to teachers to make up for the lack of pension etc.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]^^no dog in this fight.  Question, does the per pupil funding amount also include facilities?  It's hard to imagine that there is equal comparison when some schools don't have to spend $ on million dollar mortgages or rent.  Also, I imagine charters have to pay a slightly higher salary to teachers to make up for the lack of pension etc.[/quote]

Budget poster here:  No, it apparently does not. According to here: http://cfo.dc.gov/page/current-and-past-fiscal-year-budget (page 6-4 on the Capital Improvement Plan)

DCPS is spending $455M on capital projects for DCPS for fy2014. That's a lot.* For comparison's sake, there was $250M of capital projects for theOffice of Public Education Facilities MOdernization in 2010.

So if you add $830M & $455M ($1.28B) and divide by 47,247, you get $27,197 per student. That's without special ed., non-public tuition, teacher's retirement, or the Office of the State Superintendent of Education.

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*Note: There's [b]another[/b] $8M in there for special ed. transportation capital improvement projects. WTF?

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Thanks for doing this.  Very informative.  The $8 mil for sp Ed transportation Capitol improvement projects?!?  Maybe DCPS will build a garage and improve parking for all those little school buses parked in their lots along NY Ave?  Wonder how many buses they have - judging by the number of buses on those lots, it makes you wonder if they have a bus for every 1-2 Sp Ed student.  Probably cheaper to buy every sp Ed kid's family a car to drive the kid to school themselves.[/quote]

Gee, for just a couple hundred bucks they could buy some software that will figure out an optimal bus route.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXPxNvuhiPw - they could probably get rid of a chunk of that bus fleet and save a couple million.[/quote]

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