Comments on: “Once they got over the shock, students got hooked on the attention and the sense of purpose” http://www.matthewktabor.com/2009/03/24/our-school-san-jose-state-summer-bridge-p25/ In Education for the Aughts, Matthew K. Tabor discusses issues in K-12 and higher education. He examines: college, law school & medical school admissions; NCLB & testing; teaching; teacher certification; parent & community relations; school law; school boards; & national education trends. Matthew is an admissions consultant and private educator. He writes out of Cooperstown, New York. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:10:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Matthew K. Tabor http://www.matthewktabor.com/2009/03/24/our-school-san-jose-state-summer-bridge-p25/comment-page-1/#comment-3508 Matthew K. Tabor Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:24:17 +0000 http://www.matthewktabor.com/?p=741#comment-3508 Gretchen, Those outrageously high per pupil expenditures are out there - from the low-performing city districts like Washington, DC's [which is improving, thankfully] to the mediocre suburbans such as some just north of New York City. Your IP is from the DC area; you should already be familiar with numbers in the mid-$20ks: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/04/07/the-real-cost-of-public-schools/ These examples are, obviously, on the high end. They don't represent the average American school. "Could you be attaching a nonexistent (but affluent, nonetheless) straw man?" No. Do your homework. Gretchen,

Those outrageously high per pupil expenditures are out there – from the low-performing city districts like Washington, DC’s [which is improving, thankfully] to the mediocre suburbans such as some just north of New York City. Your IP is from the DC area; you should already be familiar with numbers in the mid-$20ks:

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/04/07/the-real-cost-of-public-schools/

These examples are, obviously, on the high end. They don’t represent the average American school.

“Could you be attaching a nonexistent (but affluent, nonetheless) straw man?”

No. Do your homework.

]]> By: Gretchen James http://www.matthewktabor.com/2009/03/24/our-school-san-jose-state-summer-bridge-p25/comment-page-1/#comment-3506 Gretchen James Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:05:30 +0000 http://www.matthewktabor.com/?p=741#comment-3506 How many public schools have a budget of $27,000 per pupil? Could you be attaching a nonexistent (but affluent, nonetheless) straw man? How many public schools have a budget of $27,000 per pupil? Could you be attaching a nonexistent (but affluent, nonetheless) straw man?

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