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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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[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The role of charter schools of to shuttle taxpayers money into the pockets of donors to the National party

[–] amorangi@lemmy.nz 3 points 5 days ago

Act party