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These schools are awash in money. Per capita student spending has gone through the roof the last three decades, and NY spends as much as any place in America.

These schools are awash in money. Per capita student spending has gone through the roof the last three decades, and NY spends as much as any place in America. http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/the-highest-per-pupil-spending-in-the-us/ http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/the-highest-p... The unions and bureaucracy suck the system dry. That's why less-funded private schools in NYC consistently outperform public schools. Every single rotten thing is the result of either dysfunctional culture or dysfunctional management structure/incentives.

InclinedPlane 16y ago
Yup, as with most instances of mass starvation in the late 20th century the problem is never lack of food, it's mismanagement.
nhebb 16y ago
There's a pretty good piece in City Journal about how some schools are awash in money, but that isn't the core problem . teen pregnancy is: http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_1_teen-pregnancy.html http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_1_teen-pregnancy.html The rate of single parent families has risen dramatically in the past few decades, with the rates climbing even higher in urban areas. Raising kids takes time and money - two things you have much less of when you are a single parent. There has been a lot written about this subject, but it's politically taboo and not much will (or can) be done about it.
Anechoic 16y ago
> That's why less-funded private schools in NYC consistently outperform public schools. The "less-funded private schools" are also allowed to choose the cream-of-the-crop, are not required to enroll child with special needs and can jettison problem students at the drop of a hat. As I wrote earlier, if the problem was strictly "unions" you would expect states without collective bargaining agreements to outperform states with those agreements and they don't: http://shankerblog.org/?p=895 http://shankerblog.org/?p=895

InclinedPlane 16y ago

Yup, as with most instances of mass starvation in the late 20th century the problem is never lack of food, it's mismanagement.

nhebb 16y ago

There's a pretty good piece in City Journal about how some schools are awash in money, but that isn't the core problem . teen pregnancy is: http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_1_teen-pregnancy.html http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_1_teen-pregnancy.html The rate of single parent families has risen dramatically in the past few decades, with the rates climbing even higher in urban areas. Raising kids takes time and money - two things you have much less of when you are a single parent. There has been a lot written about this subject, but it's politically taboo and not much will (or can) be done about it.

Anechoic 16y ago

> That's why less-funded private schools in NYC consistently outperform public schools. The "less-funded private schools" are also allowed to choose the cream-of-the-crop, are not required to enroll child with special needs and can jettison problem students at the drop of a hat. As I wrote earlier, if the problem was strictly "unions" you would expect states without collective bargaining agreements to outperform states with those agreements and they don't: http://shankerblog.org/?p=895 http://shankerblog.org/?p=895