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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Folks can try to nitpick all they like, folks can try to shoot the messenger all they like, but none of that is relevant, from a big-picture standpoint.

Bottom line is, there is analysis after analysis out there, whether from conservative, liberal, or non-partisan sources - analyses using official DCPS and OSSE data and ALL showing DCPS spending per student to be well into the high 20,000s per student, if not higher.    [/quote]

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't those figures arrived at by taking the total amount of spending and dividing by the total number of students? Because not all students receive an equal amount of funding, that figure is not particularly helpful -- other than to point out that it is way more than it should be. What I've heard from Catania is that the budget is so opaque that nobody really knows where the money is spent. A more helpful figure would be the number of dollars per student that actually make it down to the schools for the purpose of education.
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No, I think those analyses were more fine grained than that, looking at specific pots of money.  If you just take overall spending and divide it by the number of students the number goes even higher.[/quote]

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