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[quote=Anonymous]Charter schools sound good until you look at some of the details.  First, they do not have to be open enrollment.

Guess what?  No Special Ed, and your school will perform better.

You can limit it to only higher performing kids (not unlike magnet schools).

Meanwhile, it is taking resources away from the public schools that are not allowed to put on those limitations.

How?  Say the cost per student is 14K on average.  But, in reality, the cost per student without special needs is lower:  20 kids in a class...with a teacher is about 100K for labor (teacher and admin), plus a bit for the other resources.  But, in the charter, at 14K/student, in that class, they would get 280K in revenue.

So, they either can profit (if it is a company like Basis), or use the money other ways.

Meanwhile, the public schools, well, they are left with a higher percentage of special needs students...which are more expensive.  But, they can not support them, so they do even worse.

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