Wednesday, November 23, 2005
What's That About?
In a follow-up to yesterday's story concerning D.C.'s Wilson High School deciding not to convert to a charter Dion Haynes writes:
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Moreover, Wilson leaders say, schools that are losing students receive supplemental funds to reduce the number of staff cuts they have to make -- a practice that penalizes schools as large as Wilson, which enrolls 1,500 students. "Larger schools end up subsidizing smaller schools," said Marlene Berlin, co-chairman of the local school restructuring team.No wonder there is no true educational marketplace in Washington D.C. Dollars are supposed to follow the student. The idea that schools that lose students actually gain money is enough to make me write something that would really be in bad taste.
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