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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

+1.

Welcome to Absurdistan.[/quote]

It's true that people with more money pay more in taxes and kids with special needs get disproportionately more resources, but it's also true that private subsidization of schools like Janney incentivizes wealthy and powerful parents to resist overall school funding increases via higher taxes because they don't need that system to get their own kid's school to "adequate" and they are "already paying." Plus as pointed out before the inequities for general ed students created by the funding formula pale in comparison to the supplemental stuff from parents at some of these schools particularly for general ed students because so much of the bump in the per pupil is sped costs but general ed students at Janney get a ton of PTA-funded extras.

The real question imo is what will happen in some of the charter schools where you have a combination of very dedicated, powerful, and wealthy activist parents and a significant portion of students with more typical backgrounds/families. It's such an inefficient way to make schools imo but also seems more promising than the Janney PTA model given that there are so few low income Janney families.[/quote]

Who are these people who resist funding schools?  How do you know this is true?[/quote]

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