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Charter schools cost $153 million for 427 students, or $358k per student (piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/politics@lemmy.nz

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427 students

$153 million

To be fair, that's $153m over 4 years and the student numbers will probably increase. Let's pretend there were 1000 students, so that's 153,000,000 / 4 / 1000 = $38k per student per year.

For the rest of the school system, the govt spends ~$10k per student per year, see page 10, point 1.2. So Charter schools still cost nearly 4x as much and they don't even work.

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[–] Triton420@mander.xyz 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not sure where you’re at but in general charter schools pick and choose only the students they want and let the public schools deal with the more difficult

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 days ago

In New Zealand, I know some apps don't show the community display name but this is the NZ Politics community.

This is the government's description of charter schools, specifically calling them public schools: https://www.charterschools.govt.nz/what-is-a-charter-school/

As mentioned above, some charter schools are boot camps intended to deal with the more difficult students (but with evidence they don't work). There are also specialist schools such as the new ones for autistic/neurodivergent students (jury still out on if they will help).