Thursday, March 22, 2007
Serious Math-Kicking
A reader emails a response to these comments made in this post on the proposed impact aid (which pays school districts more if students opt to go elsewhere), on the Capitol Confidential:
"We really think he needs to hear more,” Larry Frank, co-president of Albany’s citywide PTA, said of Spitzer. “We need to make sure he understands; $2.5 million, as I calculated it, should cover public school education for 19 children in Albany. That’s nice, but it’s not going to touch the charter school issue.”
Huh?
Our man on the ground quickly runs those numbers:
$2,500,000 divided by 19 equals $131,579 per student!!! As I calculate it $2.5M divided by the per pupil for a public charter school student (10,176) equals 245 students. Is this the evidence Shelly was looking for when he said he wanted to see if charters could educate students for less?
Thanks for writing in. Somebody send the Working Families Party some calculators so they can get the right numbers into their parental talking points!
"We really think he needs to hear more,” Larry Frank, co-president of Albany’s citywide PTA, said of Spitzer. “We need to make sure he understands; $2.5 million, as I calculated it, should cover public school education for 19 children in Albany. That’s nice, but it’s not going to touch the charter school issue.”
Huh?
Our man on the ground quickly runs those numbers:
$2,500,000 divided by 19 equals $131,579 per student!!! As I calculate it $2.5M divided by the per pupil for a public charter school student (10,176) equals 245 students. Is this the evidence Shelly was looking for when he said he wanted to see if charters could educate students for less?
Thanks for writing in. Somebody send the Working Families Party some calculators so they can get the right numbers into their parental talking points!
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