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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nearly 30k spent per student by the DCPS system:  http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/25/d-c-public-schools-spend-almost-30000-per-student/[/quote]

Heritage, really.  Is this the same Heritage Foundation that printed this http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/05/14/heritage-foundation-alleges-gays-in-scouts-would-lead-to-more-boy-on-boy-contact

And this:  http://www.heritage.org/issues/immigration

Or this:  http://www.heritage.org/research/projects/impact-of-obamacare

Sorry, Heritage has no credibility.  That foundation skews the stats to fit their narrative.  [/quote]

Does the Washington Post have credibility, PP?  They reported $25,000 in 2008, it's probably gone up since:

[quote]We're often told that public schools are underfunded. In the District, the spending figure cited most commonly is $8,322 per child, but total spending is close to $25,000 per child -- on par with tuition at Sidwell Friends, the private school Chelsea Clinton attended in the 1990s.[/quote]

[url]http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-04-06/news/36792859_1_private-schools-charter-schools-public-schools[/url]

One way to arrive at that figure is described in a 2008 Post editorial:

[quote]Mr. Coulson did not use “new math” to come up with $24,600. He used simple arithmetic. Total funding for D.C. Public Schools this fiscal year (including federal dollars) was $1.216 billion. He divided that by the official enrollment figure of 49,422 and the sum became $24,606.
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[url]http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jun/25/per-pupil-spending-in-dc/[/url]

Does the CATO Institute have any credibility, PP?  They calculated a figure of $28,000 per student in 2010:

[quote]The District of Columbia, at over $28,000 per student, has the highest spending of the three DC–area districts we examined. This real spending figure is 61 percent higher than the official one—the largest gap of any district in the area. Arlington comes in second place, spending just under $24,000 per student. And Prince George’s spends the least of the three, at just over $15,000 per pupil (Table 4).[/quote]

[url]http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa662.pdf[/url]

Is the American Enterprise Institute credible, PP?  They released an editorial today arguing that DC spends over $27,000 per student:

[quote]When the U.S. Census Bureau released a report last week breaking down per pupil spending across the United States by school district, the spending figure for DCPS (the nation-leading over $18,000 per pupil per year) grabbed headlines both inside and outside the Beltway. Tipped off by a blog post by Andrew Coulson at the Cato Institute, I went digging through the report and similarly found that even the $18,000 figure was a huge under-reporting of the total spending per pupil in DCPS.

Table 15 (on pg. 31) in the report lists both the enrollment and the total expenditure of DCPS. The district enrolled 43,866 students at a total cost of $1.196 billion. Simply dividing one by the other yielded a true per pupil expenditure of $27,263.[/quote]

[url]http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/06/d-c-public-schools-grossly-under-reports-spending/[/url]
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