Comments on: LAUSD spends $30K per student

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[…] in Reading The Los Angeles Unified School District spent over 29 thousand per student in 2010. LAUSD spends $30K per student | CalWatchdog.com For comparison, let's look at a well-off middle-class suburb near Chicago, that has excellent […]

By: scott

scott — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 05:00:18 +0000

even with $10,000 per year, thats over $300,000 per class, and if you gave that money all to a few intelligent wellmeaning individuals, say $100,000 each for 3, tax free maybe, what miracles they could cause!

By: Ken Doyle

Ken Doyle — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:55:19 +0000

I am critical of LAUSD and i believe that a 40% non-graduation rate is basically a crime against the children and society. I need good information to support my arguments. I’m having trouble with the information in this article. Prop/55 for example. According to this article, prop/55 costs $823 million per year to service. There are 6.3 million students Statewide. Very simply, prop/55 only adds $130 per student per year. Therefore, the $30K claim is quite erroneous and should be corrected.

By: CalWatchdog

CalWatchdog — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:55:14 +0000

In reply to Joel Renfro.

Joel wrote: “Why are cost still going up and enrollment is dropping every year”? That’s the big question! The best answer is that the teachers’ unions are the most powerful force in Calfiornia.

“Why isn’t the cost shared equally with renters.” Actually, they do pay. The apartment owners pay the property tax, then pass it along in higher rent.

“a small fee from the parents of every child enrolled in lausd.” Courts have ruled that education is a right. So those who can’t pay don’t have to.

— John Seiler

By: Joel Renfro

Joel Renfro — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:12:36 +0000

Why are cost still going up and enrollment is dropping every year , also why does the burden of cost go mainly on home owners property tax bill ,? Why isn’t the cost shared equally with renters of pats and condos ,plus a small fee from the parents of every child enrolled in lausd

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[…] For the 2007-08 school year, the Los Angeles Unified School District spent $29,780 per student. The district also has the country’s second lowest graduation rate of 40.6%. http://www.calwatchdog.com/2010/08/20/lausd-spends-30k-per-student/ […]

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By: Willam D. Costigan

Willam D. Costigan — Sat, 21 May 2011 01:27:06 +0000

Hello,
My son goes to elementary school in Los Angeles(LAUNSD.) Every time something goes wrong, like a tussle in the yard or slow performance or an art project that doesn’t meet the teachers approval it is automatically the nine year olds fault. One source, CalWatchDog, says LAUSD spends $29, 780 on every student and even the district owns up to $11,000 per student per year. That’s a lot of money in a class with 25 students. Yet its always my kids fault when things go wrong. Where is the accountability?

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:58:55 +0000

Here’s the unabridged version of a letter I had recently published in the WSJ
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703859304576305443547743546.html#articleTabs%3Darticle
concerning the taxpayer savings available from vouchers:

Vouchers Also Cost Taxpayers Less

This excellent op-ed, “The Evidence Is In: School Vouchers Work” (op-ed, May 3) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703396404576283381160558552.html
ignores what for many might be the most important reason to send kids to private school — the huge savings to taxpayers.

The stunning total taxpayer cost of the inferior D.C public schools is over $28,000 per student.
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/02/dc-public-schools-129-trillion-28170.html [from CATO study]

Even after pulling the special ed kids’ cost out of the average, the taxpayers are paying about $23,000 per D.C. public school student.

Contrast that absurd public school outlay with the cost of a D.C. education voucher — up to $7,500 per student. Indeed, the actual average D.C. voucher school charges only $6,620 (many are Catholic schools).
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20094050/pdf/20094050.pdf

Taxpayers save potentially over $15,000 annually in direct costs per D.C. voucher student. Another plus for private schools — there is no unfunded public pension taxpayer liability — a massive problem lurking in most if not all public school systems.

D.C. is running a highly restricted voucher program — complete with a lottery to pick the lucky few low income recipients. Instead, D.C. (and urban school districts throughout the nation) should be moving towards an orderly transfer of the education of our young from government to private schools via vouchers and/or tax credits.

That is, we should do so if we care more about the kids and taxpayers than we do about the powerful education labor unions.

Never mind. My bad.