Re:Supreme Court sets higher bar for education of students w...
by alistairSH on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:58AM
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No, not even close. Tuition at Sidwell Friends is approaching $40k/year [1]. The Lab School (specializes in learning disabled students) is over $40k/year [2].
DC spent about $20k/year per student in 2014. That's among the highest spending level in the nation [3]. I believe that figure is closer to $25k/year in 2016. About a third of the states spend less than half per student than DC [4].
[1] http://www.sidwell.edu/admissions/tuition-and-fees/index.asp... [2] https://www.labschool.org/page/admissions/tuition-and-fees [3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/02/the-... [4]http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-educa...
The main point of the debate is not whether some private schools are able to educate better than public schools. It is whether subsidizing private schools will raise the overall quality of education.