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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably because publci schools cannot go to the Waltons and Gates for private funding.  [/quote]

You mean like the $25 million DCPS got from the Walton Foundation, part of $65 million for teacher raises?

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2010/04/06/dcps-teacher-contract-to-be-unveiled-big-raises-funded-by-65m-in-private-money/[/quote]

Wow, you are opening -- perhaps unintentionally -- a huge bag of worms with that response. Do you have any idea about the back story to that funding?

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I am the person who posted that link.  Don't really know the back story, just remembered that the big raises under Rhee had been funded in part by very significant private donations.  I googled "DCPS foundation teacher raises" and that was the first link that came up.  Didn't mean to start anything, just to rebut the assertion that only charters have access to private funding.

I don't want to turn this into a charter vs. DCPS battle, because that is stupid and zero sum.  But you can't deny that there are massive funding disparities between the two sectors, especially when it comes to facilities funding- even the Adequacy Study commissioned by DME was clear about it.  The real solution is a top to bottom assessment and plan for how to deal with public school buildings, both in terms of their structures and their funding, in a way that best serves the needs of students in both sectors.  In some kind of coherent, rational way that isn't nearly as susceptible to political trading as what currently happens.  But that is about as likely as pigs flying.[/quote]

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