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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/10/02/arlington-schools-may-ease-stance-on-jefferson-high/6ac6403c-ef7f-406a-bc4a-a3eb654e1734/

Article from 1997 about aps paying tuition to tj[/quote]

For the math challenged on this forum this 1997 article explains why sending kids to TJ does not save APS money no matter what TJ costs:

The $8,000 is less than the average $9,305 cost of educating a student in the Arlington system. But the system does not save any money by sending a student to Jefferson because it cannot, for example, reduce the salaries of teachers when a few students leave their classes, school officials explained.
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Ok then let’s call it a way to reduce class sizes. [/quote]

I can see why you are anti-TJ, you seem to be pretty anti-math. If x number fewer kids go to a school, they don't reduce class sizes. Class sizes are determined by planning factors. The planning factors are established by the school board and listed in a book/manual.

If the planning factor for a class is 25 and 21 kids show up, they get a teacher. If 29 kids sign up, they will divide them into two sections. Sending 25 kids to TJ (from three high schools) doesn't change the planning factors--it might have a tiny tiny effect on how many sections of a class are offered in a school.

This is why the finance department doesn't have precise estimates of every possible budget scenario (especially when it comes to option schools) and goes by averages. They can't tell you the exact effect changes would have on staffing because it has to do with what home schools those kids are assigned to, what grades they are in, how close to the planning factors those grades are already--or the specific classes those kids would enroll in, whether those kids would be bus riders or not at their home schools, etc. etc.

We're talking about a $825 million budget here. The total cost of sending a couple of dozen kids to TJ is less than 0.1% of the budget, so the [u]marginal [/u]difference in cost (up or down) between sending a couple of dozen kids to TJ versus keeping them in Arlington is like a hundredth of a percent. [/quote]

Yup. This whole thread is discussing negligible line items.

[b]What we really need is full funding from Youngkin and the county[/b].

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And what exactly is full funding???  [/quote]

Senate proposal is a start - pg 32
https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/arlington/Board.nsf/files/D2WW4J839BAE/$file/FY%202025%20Superintendent's%20Presentation%20FINAL%20(331%20pm).pdf

The state and county should step up and appropriately fund our schools. 
"“Virginia school divisions receive less K-12 funding per student than the 50-state average,
the regional average, and three of Virginia’s five bordering states. School divisions in other
states receive 14 percent more per student than school divisions in Virginia, on average,
after normalizing for differences in cost of labor among states. This equates to about
$1,900 more per student than Virginia.”
[b]Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC)
estimates that annually APS is underfunded by approximately $51 million[/b]"
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I'll never understand why we're willing to give billionaires $2b+ to build stadiums, but don't even consider giving $2b to public education.[/quote]

Best comment in this thread.[/quote]

People are arguing over field trips? Way to focus on the wrong problem here.

Contact the county board. Contact your state legislators. Contact the governor. This is ridiculous. [/quote]

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