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Tych2  Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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Yukishiro1 posted:
Where do you think the money is being pissed away?
Administrators for a start. Probably on mainstreaming some kids that shouldn't be.
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theredkay1  Posts: 611
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I thought that a great portion of the increased school costs were due to class size reductions over the last two decades?
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d10/tables/dt10_188.asp?referrer=list
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d10/tables/dt10_039.asp?referrer=report
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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Administrative overhead has exploded in the past 30 years or so and it is a potential source of savings. Not all that much, but definitely some savings. The problem is that it's savings that comes from cutting the jobs of the people who decide how to spend the money, and it's never easy to get someone to cut their own job.
Special ed is the big one, as you rightly guess. Special ed costs HUGE amounts of money for districts. In a lot of cases they're employing someone to follow one kid around all day every day. That one kid is costing the district 50k/year at least.
Another place the money goes is...wait for it...testing compliance!
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NuEM Posts: 1,007
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I thought math was test prep for math tests? Have I been doing it wrong?
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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theredkay1 posted:
I thought that a great portion of the increased school costs were due to class size reductions over the last two decades?
This is true. Well, I dunno about "great." But it's definitely a big chunk.
I'm not sure the science behind it is all that solid, frankly. But teachers unions love it because it means more teachers hired which means more union dues.
I mean I'm sure smaller classes help but I'm not sure it's very cost efficient in terms of the benefits.
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Brother_Tempus Title: Patriot
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Yukishiro1 posted:
theredkay1 posted:
I thought that a great portion of the increased school costs were due to class size reductions over the last two decades?
This is true. Well, I dunno about "great." But it's definitely a big chunk.
I'm not sure the science behind it is all that solid, frankly. But teachers unions love it because it means more teachers hired which means more union dues.
I mean I'm sure smaller classes help but I'm not sure it's very cost efficient in terms of the benefits.
the private school my kids go to has a 10:1 ratio and a good percentage of the kids are advanced academically compared to the grade designation and the school makes a profiit
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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They don't need to take special ed kids who cost them 50k/year.
Also, if your kid's school is for profit that's usually bad news.
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Brother_Tempus Title: Patriot
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Yukishiro1 posted:
They don't need to take special ed kids
they have one Down Syndrome child, 2 with Autism, and a handful with ADHD/ADD
nice try though
The school takes in children, the public schools have tossed
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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I hope they teach your kids better reading comprehension that you got taught.
My private high school had the token disabled and poor kids too. But it's a very different thing to take a few kids as charity cases than to have to take every kid that comes in the door.
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Afio Title: Belle of the Bull
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Phlegm573 posted:
The quality of schools in this town is wildly variable. It just so happens that I work next to the best PS in NYC. Once I have kids of school age, I hope to live in its zone.
Unfortunately, that "zone" is "Tribeca." Hence, the purchase of Megamillions tickets mentioned in another thread.
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