Re:What Happens if SAT Scores Consider Adversity?
by carlmr on Thursday November 28, 2019 @11:36AM
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>Private schools increase the funding available per-student in public schools.
When what you pay into public schools becomes your tax contribution to private schools they will on average have more per student if more students from higher tax brackets join.
Re:What Happens if SAT Scores Consider Adversity?
by scoot on Thursday November 28, 2019 @12:47PM
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Yes, it's two-fold:
1. Those in private school do not have to be funded by the state, and so, given a finite budget, the average funding per child in public school goes up.
2. (Your point, if I understood correctly, and which I hadn't considered...) The tax take from private school fees indirectly helps fund the public schools. Without that tax income, the education budget (or some other public spending) would necessarily go down.
Private schools increase the funding available per-student in public schools.
> make sure all [public] schools have the same amount of funding per student. In other words, target the poverty problem directly
That only addresses one aspect of the problem. None of the other issues measured, or others like the subjective ones you listed would benefit from that.