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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Charter school parents:  We want DC to way over-spend on our facilities too (albeit without the big gratuity to developers).  Any money that WTU negotiates for their dues-paying teachers is owed to our teachers too.  We *have to* go to charters because DCPS has failed us.  We *have to* go to charters because DCPS is violent.  We can't take any students that have to or want to leave other charters; DCPS needs to take those.  Even as we take away half the kids from DCPS, we don't want to have any part is helping solve the messes that DCPS has to deal with -- that is other kids' problem.

Basically, we want the equality for all the good stuff but avoidance for all the difficult parts.[/quote]

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DC charter parents: Follow the law which says funding parity.

DCPS:  But we have to pay our teachers more, they are in a union.  Your teachers aren’t in unions so they shouldn’t make as much.  We also get no money for buildings, they come from the DGS fairy.  Why do you need money for facilities?   [/quote]

Some of them are in unions though.

They do get a facilities allotment. Explicitly. Have your opinion but please stop spreading false information.[/quote]

Does that $2000 per kid for charters equal $5 billion for DCPS?  Absolutely not!  What is DCPS spending on Tubman, $200k per kid?  And they will provide maintenance going forward. [/quote]

I don't now where the $5 billion figure comes from.

However, $2000 x 50,000 students x 20 years = $2 billion, so that's real money.  
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DC has spent $3.6 billion renovating DCPS schools, and plans to send another $2 billion more. [/quote]

Ok, we know some of that was ill-spent (the effort to make underenrolled high schools appealing), some inefficiently spent (yay Bowser and her developer friends), some spent to benefit the community in addition to the schools (pools), and some spent initiatives to benefit the community that make no diffetence to the kids (energy efficiency).

We also know that DCPS has to deal with the schools already has, that can't easily reject a difficult property.

Charter schools would surely spend more efficiently [b]can choose properties that make most sense in this era[/b], amd need not worry about investments for the larger community.  So presumably they need less money for the same number of students over at the same time.

Is the current allocation fair? I don't know. Maybe not. But I do know that you need more complete information to make a meaningful comparison.[/quote]

How? They already have buildings. Just like DCPS. Do better.[/quote]

Some charters have bought or leased buildings in the past 20 years.  Others are still expanding or plan to move.  None are tied to properties they acquired 50 or 100 years ago.[/quote]

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