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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In December 2016, the Baltimore Sun reported that 3,000 students received BOOST scholarships totaling $5,000,000 (or $1,666.67 per student average). See http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-hogan-boost-funding-20161213-story.html

Maryland PTA President Elizabeth Ysla Leight stated that "78%" of these 3,000 students were already attending private school, so 22% were not previously attending private school.

Let's say that the 3,000 students were evenly distributed between K-12 (13 total grades) and that every K student would have gone to private school anyway. That's 270 K students we can exclude.

Additionally, the 78% of 3,000 = 2,340.

Therefore, 390 (3,000 - 2,340 - 270) children who would have been in Maryland public schools instead went to private school at a cost of $1,666.67 each to the state, instead of $12,000 - $15,000/year each for public.

Let's assume the state-wide average public school cost is $13,500 per student.

390 x $13,500 = $5,265,000.

In other words, providing BOOST scholarships totaling $5,000,000 saved $5,265,000 in public school spending, and therefore effectively SAVED taxpayers $265,000.

In other words, all the complaining over BOOST is a farce.[/quote]
It's not a good thing that 78% of those receiving Maryland taxpayer subsidies for private school were those whose parents already chosen to and had the resources to fund a private school education, even before the subsidies.  What a waste of $.  5mn$ in taxpayer funding could have paid for a lot of teachers to reduce class sizes in my county.[/quote]

+1 There are NO taxpayer savings here. If PP is saying that 78% of students receiving these subsidies were already in private school, why pay 5mn$ to subsidize them?  [/quote]

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