The report shows that when fully accounting for pension and health cost liabilities,
regular public schools cost $ 19,822 to $ 20,283 per student.
Not exact matches
The policy group Save Our States, headed by former state GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, reports that charters in
public school buildings
cost more than $ 3,000 less per student less than
regular public schools.
De Blasio also reversed Bloomberg - era policy that banned churches from using
public schools for
regular Sunday worship at nominal
cost — something mostly taken advantage of by the right - wing Christian fundamentalist «church planting» movement.
(The program substantially enhances high
school graduation rates and increases parental satisfaction at lower
cost per student than education in the
regular public schools of the District of Columbia [iv]-RRB-;
Unlike
regular public schools, which have the authority to seek taxpayer - backed bonds for renovating
school buildings and new construction, charter
schools have no such mechanism in place to offset their facilities
costs, which often come out of their operating budgets.
But Alexandria
school officials said the academy
costs are met entirely from
regular public education funds, plus an extra amount the federal government allots annually for every student designated an «English Language Learner,» no matter what
public school they attend.
In Morrissey's view, the legacy
costs are owed by taxpayers, not students in either
regular public schools or charter
schools.
«Otherwise it creates a downward spiral, where every
public school has an incentive to convert to a charter and / or every family has an incentive to choose a better - funded charter
school, leaving fewer and fewer students — and less and less funding — in the
regular school system to cover the legacy
costs.»
(Current KIPP - type programs
cost little more than
regular public schools, but that's only because their teachers work about 60 percent more than
regular public school teachers for only slightly higher pay.
«With the kids going to
regular junior kindergarten at the local
public school in the fall, we'll only need the nanny part - time at a
cost of $ 12,000 annually,» says Raj.