[Durham INC] Proposal for Black Academy in Durham NC

[Tom Miller]

I agree, but I want to know more about the all-male academy

 

From: inc-list-bounces at rtpnet.org [mailto:inc-list-bounces at rtpnet.org] On
Behalf Of Pat Carstensen
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 10:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [Durham INC] Proposal for Black Academy in Durham NC

 

Look, the school board has said that the problem is that the resources that
follow the kids don't match the needs the kids have.  The obvious solution
is to work on getting the formula for state funding so the funding matches
the needs.  As it is:

1) Charter schools siphon off more than their share of kids that are cheaper
to teach

2) Charter schools politely say, "We can't meet your needs" for students
that are really expensive to teach (e.g. the special needs child that gets a
one-on-one adult to sit next to them all day long and thus costs 10 times
the average student to keep in school).

3) We're just hiding the cost of counsellors, lower class sizes, and other
extras for some of the students who would go to the proposed academy.
Wherever they are, the resources don't match their needs.

4) It makes it harder and harder to keep the kids who are cheaper to teach
in the public schools because the extra cost for that one-on-one come out of
the resource allocated to them.  What is the average size of an AP class in
DPS? 

 

This is what you call a dangerously distorted market.

 

Regards, pat

 

 

 

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