And
these privately placed students amounted to 0.18 percent of the 47,917,774 students enrolled in public education.
According to the New York Times, New York City schools have 2,000
privately placed students at a cost of $ 24 million.
For example, some public schools are incapable of serving blind and deaf students, who constituted 3,022 of the 88,156
privately placed students in 2004.
Weighting the costs by the type of disabilities among students placed in private schools, we can estimate that the average
privately placed student would have cost $ 15,117 if he had instead been served in a public school.
It assumes that the cost of serving
a privately placed student would be the same as the cost of serving the average student with the same disability.
Not exact matches
Much to the distress of the session's chair, higher education minister David Lammy, one of the joint winners was a suggestion for a cap on the number of
places at Oxford and Cambridge given to
privately - educated
students.
Nor has the percentage of
students who are
privately placed substantially increased in recent years.
Given that only 1.48 percent of special education
students are
privately placed nationally, the experience with McKay suggests a pent - up demand for private schooling among the disabled.
For example, the average
student attending a
privately run voucher school, whether network or stand - alone, may have parents who
place a higher value on education than those of the average
student attending a municipal school.
Out of 67,729
students privately placed at parental request, 1,864 of them were in DC, or about 2.75 % of the total.
So it's something of a surprise that a higher fraction of Swedish
students go to
privately run (and mostly for - profit) schools than in the U.S. * The system was put in
place in the early 1990s by a center - right (by Swedish standards) government, inspired by the ideas of the godfather of free market economics, Milton Friedman.