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MartiniMan
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Here are the numbers
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Date:
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3/29/2009 10:18:18 AM
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Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education $4,917,325 DCPS (k-12 relevant items only, see below) $593,961,000 OSSE (k-12 relevant items only, see below) $198,277,000 Office of Public Education Facilities Modernization $38,368,800 Non-public Tuition** $141,700,442 Special Education Transportation** $75,558,319 Capital funding $239,033,000
Total DC k-12 budget $1,291,815,886 DCPS official total enrollment (incl. special ed.) 48,646 Total per pupil spending $26,555
That is $10K per year more than I pay to send my kids to an elite private school in a very expensive area of Altanta with absolutely zero local, state, federal or diocesan funding. They are on their own, have excellent facilities, many teachers with Masters and PhD's, decent sports programs, etc.
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