Starting from 210,000 per classroom. Five students leave, and there are now twenty-five. That's too many still to combine with the class next door, so the costs for the teacher, janitor, electricity, bus driver, payroll person down at district headquarters, building repairs, etc. are all the same. Maybe you save a $1000 or so total on printing and art supplies and such through the year as a result of having to print five fewer of each handout and such
So the bad would be that subtracting a $1000 for printing and art supplies still leaves a classroom that still costs $209,000 to run, but there is only $195,000 with which to run it.
Perhaps they can find a way to save on administrative costs and keep the small class size. Or if they can't (or won't) do that, raise taxes slightly or take money from some other budget to keep the small class size. More likely though, they'd either find a way to redistribute the students and keep classes large so as to cut staffing costs, or they'd start cutting any special programs they could.
Private schools usually do have funding beyond tuition. Mine did a ton of fundraising anyway. I think they got money from the diocese too, though I could be wrong about that. Private schools also tend to cost less to run due to not providing services for special needs students or transportation to and from school and a variety of other reasons (mine made us pay for textbooks and contracted out the lunch room to a for profit business). Although I suspect they also tend to waste less on administrative costs and such, but I suppose it depends on the school and the district being compared.
I googled the Utah voucher amounts out of curiosity, and it does look pretty fair, especially for the middle class. It leaves the lowest income people with no school choice though since it doesn't cover full tuition and even $800 can be a lot to a family who is barely making ends meet.
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Date: 2007-10-17 05:57 am (UTC)Starting from 210,000 per classroom. Five students leave, and there are now twenty-five. That's too many still to combine with the class next door, so the costs for the teacher, janitor, electricity, bus driver, payroll person down at district headquarters, building repairs, etc. are all the same. Maybe you save a $1000 or so total on printing and art supplies and such through the year as a result of having to print five fewer of each handout and such
So the bad would be that subtracting a $1000 for printing and art supplies still leaves a classroom that still costs $209,000 to run, but there is only $195,000 with which to run it.
Perhaps they can find a way to save on administrative costs and keep the small class size. Or if they can't (or won't) do that, raise taxes slightly or take money from some other budget to keep the small class size. More likely though, they'd either find a way to redistribute the students and keep classes large so as to cut staffing costs, or they'd start cutting any special programs they could.
Private schools usually do have funding beyond tuition. Mine did a ton of fundraising anyway. I think they got money from the diocese too, though I could be wrong about that. Private schools also tend to cost less to run due to not providing services for special needs students or transportation to and from school and a variety of other reasons (mine made us pay for textbooks and contracted out the lunch room to a for profit business). Although I suspect they also tend to waste less on administrative costs and such, but I suppose it depends on the school and the district being compared.
I googled the Utah voucher amounts out of curiosity, and it does look pretty fair, especially for the middle class. It leaves the lowest income people with no school choice though since it doesn't cover full tuition and even $800 can be a lot to a family who is barely making ends meet.