The Auditor General's reports on
traditional public school district spending has led to public policy debates regarding how money ought to be best spent.
* Nationally,
traditional public school districts spent 3.8 percent of total current expenditures on salaries for special education teachers; all charter schools spent 2.2 percent.
Not exact matches
Within the same
district, charter
schools typically receive less per pupil
spending than the
traditional public school.
Established in 2004 as part of compromise legislation that also included new
spending on charter and
traditional public schools in the
District of Columbia, the OSP is a means - tested program.
But this article on private tuition for special education «burdens» is even worse because the burden on the
district isn't the total cost, but the cost for private placement in excess of what the
district would have
spent if they had served these disabled students in
traditional public schools.
In January 2006, the Boston Teachers Union and the
district were in negotiations to
spend $ 100,000 to promote the virtues of
traditional public schools to families choosing charters.
It alleges that a review of the research on charter
schools leads to the conclusions that, overall, charter
schools: 1) fail to raise student achievement more than
traditional district schools do; 2) aren't innovative and don't pass innovations along to
district schools; 3) exacerbate the racial and ethnic isolation of students; 4) provide a worse environment for teachers than
district schools; and 5)
spend more on administration and less on instruction than
public schools.
When it comes to per - pupil
spending, the
District had the largest gap, with
public charter
schools getting $ 16,361 per student in fiscal 2011 and
traditional public schools getting $ 29,145, about $ 13,000 more per student, according to the study.
Principals from the
District's
traditional public schools and
public charter
schools will
spend the next 11 months learning how to better manage their
schools — working together — as part of a program aimed at improving
school leadership across the city.
* In most states, charter
school districts reported
spending less money per pupil than
traditional public schools on instruction, student support services and teacher salaries.
Intensifying the heated political clash between charter
schools and
traditional school districts is that overall
spending on
public education, for all
schools, has fallen.
In April 2017, In the
Public Interest released a report revealing that a substantial portion of the more than $ 2.5 billion in tax dollars or taxpayer subsidized financing spent on California charter school facilities in the past 15 years has been misspent on: schools that underperformed nearby traditional public schools; schools built in districts that already had enough classroom space; schools that were found to have discriminatory enrollment policies; and in the worst cases, schools that engaged in unethical or corrupt prac
Public Interest released a report revealing that a substantial portion of the more than $ 2.5 billion in tax dollars or taxpayer subsidized financing
spent on California charter
school facilities in the past 15 years has been misspent on:
schools that underperformed nearby
traditional public schools; schools built in districts that already had enough classroom space; schools that were found to have discriminatory enrollment policies; and in the worst cases, schools that engaged in unethical or corrupt prac
public schools;
schools built in
districts that already had enough classroom space;
schools that were found to have discriminatory enrollment policies; and in the worst cases,
schools that engaged in unethical or corrupt practices.
Public charter
school students in New York currently receive no per pupil facilities aid, can not provide preschool programs, and on average receive about 75 cents on the dollar when compared to
traditional school district spending.