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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One should also bear in mind that charters get less funds per student than DCPS schools do, along with having to foot the bill for facilities, which is separately funded on top of per-student funding on the DCPS side.  If people think money is getting wasted in charters, you should start looking into how much money is going into DCPS schools.[/quote]

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DC funds the charter schools at a rate that is supposed to be equivalent to the per pupil cost of educating a DCPS student. However, this amount represents only the [i]marginal[/i] cost. It is also about $2k less than what MoCo reports spending per student.

When you hear stories of charters that are supposedly rolling in money, they are usually schools that are part of large networks that receive extensive private funding. It’s not tax dollars that are paying salaries, but grants from national foundations and sizeable donations.

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Like how Harmony's parent company was required to invest $1 million into its DC school as a condition of being allowed to continue operating, because its performance has been so crappy.[/quote]

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