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[quote=Anonymous]Oh yeah, this was the Rhee thing, right? Up salaries but make it easy to fire and throw in a really poor evaluation system to back both. [/quote]

No, these are base salaries that are fought and won by the Union. The evaluation system and bonuses were a Rhee thing, teachers can make way more than this with bonuses. Those bonuses are funded outside of the per pupil funding formula.

I see the argument for charter schools here. Charters can’t afford to pay high salaries because they have to pay rent, don’t get the extra funding for bonuses, I don’t know what else. And now they have to use their per pupil funding formula for basic utilities, renovations, and facilities while DCPS spends it just on salaries that keep going higher and higher. Taxpayers have to fund the general fund in addition to the per pupil funding to pay for DCPS facilities, utilities, etc. Also, Early Stages does not serve charter students. Charter schools have to fund their early childhood special education programs through per pupil funding as well.

Generally I think DCPS SHOULD get more money because they have to maintain buildings no matter what, have to accept students at all times, etc. But every year moving money outside of the per pupil funding seems to be resulting in charter schools that just can’t keep up with DCPS spending, and also we are all of a sudden spending A LOT of money on DCPS. The base funding rate is around $15,000 per student. With all of these add ons, we are spending over $30,000 per student for really, a low performing school system. I don’t think the answer is to give charters even more money, but determine an affordable per pupil funding model that can actually pay for most of the programs needed.[/quote]

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