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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Per pupil funding is pretty comparable across schools. The variation comes mostly from enrollment and sped. Janney would also see a significant bump I bet if you weren’t using average salary (obvs salary tied to seniority doesn’t necessarily track with quality blah blah).

The crazy thing about that email is how openly it acknowledges that Janney is only nominally a public school, and that making it acceptable for rich kids means raising a ton of money every year. [/quote]

Not true at all.

At our kids' school (not Janney, but close) the school gets less than $10k per pupil.

At other schools SE they get over $18k per pupil (not to mention school palaces costing over $100m)[/quote]

They get more because they need more in terms of academics and social, emotional support. If in 20-21 your school admitted 30-50% at-risk kids, your per pupil allocation would increase too. Is it really worth the trade off to you?[/quote]

Of course they do. And the taxes paid by others in the city provides that extra money. But you don’t want those others to further subsidize DCPS by contributing to their own kids’ school. [/quote]

No. The other schools aren't getting more classroom teachers or aides. They are getting psychologists, social workers, and behavior specialists. They are getting people who are trying to get hte kids to a place where they are available to learn. The families in the schools with $100K + fundraising are taking care of that part of the equation at home (thankfully).

"Subsidizing" DCPS just exacerbates the gap between the haves and have-nots even further. [/quote]

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