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Evening_Presence_927 t1_j9lb4qt wrote

Reply to comment by KaiDaiz in Parents fume over Governor Hochul’s charter school expansion proposal | amNewYork by barweis

> our education budget is like 40% of our city budget...

Again, we’re the largest city in the country. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t. If you’re still pissy about it, lobby the city to raise taxes and further fund the system.

> plenty of higher cost of living and larger metro areas around world spend way less vs we do % wise.

All of those places have national control of education though, so thanks for the advocacy for further federal control of education in this country 😉

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KaiDaiz t1_j9lc1ld wrote

Largest does not justify the % allocated. Its natural for larger budget to spend more dollar wise but still within the typical % allocation of budget. Even among US cities, % wise is out of proportion.

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_j9lf2pa wrote

Absolutely it does. The problem won’t be magically solved by cutting spending per student.

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KaiDaiz t1_j9lg5uz wrote

If you have a large budget with most of the money not making to classrooms as evident by teachers buying supplies with their own money...its clearly a sign of mismanagement and bloat up top. The money is simply not properly allocated. Tossing more money into the pit is not going to make it any better. NYC DOE needs a reform and get their act together to provide and perform what parents want. If it takes diverting the best and promising students and funds into charters since more students are switching to them then yes the charter budget should increase for NYC DOE to realize they need to get their act together then so be it.

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_j9m8yjf wrote

> If it takes diverting the best and promising students and funds into charters since more students are switching to them then yes the charter budget should increase for NYC DOE to realize they need to get their act together then so be it.

Lmao that’s never going to convince the DOE officials. They’re getting paid either way.

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KaiDaiz t1_j9m9smf wrote

Charters and traditional public share the same overall education budget. As more students flock to charter...the NYC DOE share of the budget for public decrease. Less money = less jobs to support.

Also if we are to believe the charters cost per student at 18kish (bit too low imo) vs 28k+ for the reg public, they are more cost efficient

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_j9mb7ek wrote

Except they aren’t shown to do any better than public schools, so it’s not more efficient.

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KaiDaiz t1_j9mc8em wrote

If we compare charter to unscreened public schools, charters will have them beat and possibly beat the screened publics in near future due to how weak the incoming classes now are due to admission changes.

Charter vs unscreen local are better comparison bc that's what's really available right now in disadvantage communities.

We already seeing more students flock to charters especially the asian demographics due to screened school admission changes.

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Evening_Presence_927 t1_j9mda67 wrote

Lmao not even close to being true.

Those poor Asian students are going to get scammed

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