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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not when you add in the fundraising that other schools do. And they need much more than they get.[/quote]

are you arguing schools should not be allowed to do private fundraising? not really following. i don't think you can prohibit families from fundraising for their schools. would you rather diminish family involvement with schools?[/quote]

No, but to say that title 1 schools have more $ is missing the private fundraising. And title 1 schools definitely need more money, given the populations they are working with.[/quote]

you really do not get it. the private fundaising is great because it benefit all kids in school and makes up for a gap in funding "rich" schools have. it is not true, as you seem to insist, that schools in in middle and upper middle class areas have an extra leg, and more money, because parents in those areas basically tax themselves and give money to the school. teh example above of Murch and Payne shows it: per pupil, Murch gets $9,265, while Payne gets $14,336.  if Murch got the same amount per pupil as Payne, Murch would get in 2015 $9,748.000.  Murch's budget in 2015 is $6.3Million. thus, in percentage, Murch gets more than $3Million less it would get if it was a title 1 school. the PTA raises something around $300k-$400K (I am not sure). as you can see, if Payne had the same amount of students as Murch, Payne would get over $3Million more, which is ten times what the Murch PTA raises. so the problem is not the lack of PTA funding, the problem is a lot more complex.  [/quote]

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