Although the city's records on
spending per student generally and in any particular school are difficult to pin down because of all of the accounting intricacies, the best estimate is that it costs at least $ 19,358 per year to educate each student on the public side of the building, or $ 980 more than on the charter side.
Not exact matches
And we estimate the impact on
per - pupil expenditure of the proportion of
students in a district with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), as
students with IEPs
generally have special needs that result in higher
spending.
In unadjusted figures, these low -
spending districts
generally spend between $ 5,351 and $ 8,233; on average, they
spend around $ 7,130
per student.
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Generally speaking, districts
spending the most $ $
per student produce the worst academic results.»]
There are exceptions, but
generally speaking the districts
spending the most money
per student are producing the worst academic results.
School - choice
students outperform their public peers even though public schools, which are already heavily regulated,
generally spend more than twice as much
per pupil.