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...stories," Gregg responded, "we're going to run out of money." Ted Kennedy then rose, bristling with charts and graphs, to beg restoration of $5.4 billion for public education. "If money were the answer," Gregg sighed, "Washington, D.C., would have the best schools in the country," adding that the district spent more money per student than most states with worse results...
...adds that at charter schools established for more than six years, scores are more than 10 percent higher than those in the district...
Sullivan says that if all the students that leave the school district to attend the charter school came from only one school, then the city would be able to save money by cutting back on teachers and utilities. But as the students will be drawn in “dribs and drabs” from 12 elementary and middle schools, he says it is unlikely that any one school will lose enough students to make cost-saving teacher cutbacks possible...
Peterson says the belief that the district will suffer disproportionate losses is based on the false assumption that the school cannot adjust its expenditures to reflect the changing number of students in the district...
...Fowler-Finn] basically is saying that most of his costs are fixed. This is not true. Most of your costs are personnel costs,” Peterson says. “The percentage of children leaving the district to go to charter schools is a trivial number compared to the changes in demography every year...