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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The WOTP schools get less $$ per kid than title I schools.  They do benefit from economies of scale because they are full, but they do not raise as much as the difference in funds.  These funds do give the schools significant flexibility in that a principal can use her budget to hire more staff because the PTA can pick up administrative costs such as supplies.

We probably give about $2000/year to our WOTP elementary (flat out checks, bidding at the auction, money spent at other fundraisers), we are not rich but we used to be in private daycare and preschool so we built this in as an expense when we dropped that cost because we want to do what we can to help make our children's education as much as we can.  We have two kids.

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Even though some EOTP schools get additional title I funds, that nowhere near comes close to the fundraising the PTAs like Janney fundraise. And of course, the title I funds come because you have some extreme poverty in the schools, so they are desperately in need of additional funds.[/quote]

And of course this is not about who gets/deserves more and where it comes from, right?  but that schools are different and some of their funding sources are different.[/quote]

Disagree.  It is ABSOLUTELY about who gets and deserves more.  It is resolutely unfair that kids who go to PUBLIC schools in certain parts of the city benefit from additional funding just because there are rich parents at their school.  There should be a level playing field in terms of who gets services in public schools, when some well funded PTAs have budgets that compare favorably with large schools in themselves and are able to fund entire staff positions there is something very wrong with the picture.[/quote]

I do not understand what your solution would be. I am the Murch parent who wrote about the auction. the PTA money funds staff positions that benefit all kids at the school, IB and OOB, if anything DCPS has more money to help other schools. I agree that all kids should have services in DCPS and not only schools where parents pay out of pocket for them. but I don't think it is just a matter of money. how much money per pupil does a DCPS elementary school get? how much money per pupil a Title 1 school get? I do not know exactly, maybe we should look at the numbers before deciding what to do. in cases of schools with extreme poverty, just throwing more money may not be the answer. there must be a net a social services too, extra-hours of instructions, maybe year around instructions. you cannot have the same solutions for kids who come from very disfunctional families. look at the case of Relisha Rudd, and how she lived her short life (I think about her becuase she had the same age as my child, and such a different life). having $300K in PTA money at Paynes would not have changed her life I believe [/quote]

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