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> every student that leaves the public school and takes their little chunk of funding with them Is this a state thing? In California, I don't get to stop payin
by scruple 2y ago
> every student that leaves the public school and takes their little chunk of funding with them
Is this a state thing? In California, I don't get to stop paying taxes if my children go to a charter school. Or, am I just not understanding the point you're making re: "funding?" Are charter schools not also public where you live?
- bbreier 2y agofunding for public schools in California and most other places is based on number of students in attendance
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoYou lose a head at your school, you lose funding for that head. Some heads are more expensive to educate, like special education students, but the state gives you the same amount for each head. So as a school, you might want to keep the cheaper to educate heads and get rid of the more expensive to educate heads.
- scruple 2y agoThat tracks and makes a lot of sense, based on conversations I've had. Thanks.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoAs the other replies say, you don't get to stop paying taxes, but the local school does get to stop receiving them.
- scruple 2y agoThank you. So, the funding chases the student, somehow?
- dmurray 2y agoThe school gets paid for the number of students it has on its books. It's not difficult to imagine how this can "somehow" work operationally.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoBut if, theoretically, there were a way to count students, and also a hypothetical way to count money, someone might draw a correspondence between them?