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That's actually completely backward.  There is huge disparity in the per-student funding model.  The reality of it is that DCPS spends FAR more per student than charters are given to spend per student.[b]  In fact, DCPS spends more per student than virtually ANY school district in the nation.  That is an absolute fact.  [/b]

Charters, meanwhile, are already forced to educate their students on far less per student than DCPS schools has to spend per student.   From a pure spending standpoint, it would actually be far more equitable for high-expense students to be served by DCPS as opposed to charters, since they should have far more resources per student to put toward them.  In fact, DCPS has special offices, programs, people with fancy titles and entire bureaucracies for dealing with high-maintenance students, as opposed to charters, who are not given any meaningful resources to deal with them.  But then again, the gross dysfunctionality within DCPS that allows most of that money to go to waste is another whole issue.  Fix THAT issue of dysfunctionality, waste and abuse within DCPS FIRST, before complaining about charters or trying to squeeze and stretch charters even more than they already are and making the per-student resource allocation to charters even more unfair than it already is.[/quote]

This is really a misleading statement that is repeated so often without context. That per student calculation includes educating special needs students placed in both private and DCPS schools. It also includes the busing of all those students.  Until DC can find away of providing a proper education to the special needs students, that number will always be skewed because schools like Chelsea and Lab really cuts deep into the budget. [/quote]

You mean there are no special needs kids in other states, right?[/quote]

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