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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ellington is slated to receive $6.2MM allocation for 527 students next year.[/quote]

That's $11,764 of our DC taxpayer money allocated for each student at Ellington.  So, $9,000 for out-of-townies seems like a really low tuition for them, a partial gift, even.  I would argue that non-taxpayers should even pay more, as a contribution to the school.[/quote]

That's just the operating budget.  The capital budget -- take that $178 million and amortize it over the life of the improvements -- is about an equivalent amount. So VA and MD kids are paying about half of the direct costs of having them in our schools. If you add in administrative overhead it's probably a third.[/quote]

This is pretty outrageous.  There's really no other way to look at it.[/quote]

You have to put it in historical perspective.  Schools have high fixed costs. For four decades DCPS suffered declining enrollment. In that environment, if you can get additional kids who pay your marginal cost -- the operating budget per-pupil -- it allows you to spread your fixed costs further and keep open schools that might otherwise close (assuming the kids actually pay).

However, when you're talking about building new facilities it makes zero sense to accommodate outside kids unless they're paying the full cost.[/quote]

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