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I put four of the charts which have been published here separately together on one slide. This may help paint the picture of what is needed May 22.
The charts were previously published
- Per pupil spending below MA average
- Franklin contribution to education declining
- Special education costs increasing
- MCAS test results for 2006
Does per pupil spending include the fees that are paid for busing and activities? Is the school department comparing spending to towns where these fees do not exist? What is the per pupil spending if you include the impact of activities and bus fees?
ReplyDeleteWhat about the impact of a charter school in town? Is the cost of running this school included in the budget? What about the children? Are they included in the denominator of this equation?
If the children are included in franklin's school population, but the cost is not included because it is state funded, then the calculation of per pupil spending is skewed.
Anonymous, the numbers are calculated by the MA Dept of Education to ensure comparison across the 351 communities of MA.
ReplyDeleteThe Charter School is funded by our tax dollars. The same per pupil rate that we pay for schooling our Franklin students is what the Charter School gets.
For further analysis on the per pupil costs, I would defer to the DOE web site I linked to. They are the experts on this.