re: School Choice Will Lead to Higher Teacher Salaries--why do they oppose it?

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You don't understand how a school system is funded. The schools get MFP money from the state. That is a little less than 8,000 a kid (if and only if they are enrolled on Oct. 1st). Then they get revenue from local taxes, I'm not sure about the amount. Then they get federal dollars that demand they be spent specific ways.

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Yes I do understand. MFP is far from all the funding they get.

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You forget how much does it cost to operate a classroom for handicap kids you have to tube feed, perform physical therapy on, and God knows what else.

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No I have not forgotten anything. I know for example that there are outrageous requirements on public schools that do nothing to help things. I would be quite willing to raise vouchers amounts for handicapped kids and I bet you the families of handicapped kids would love the choices that would create.

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m not saying public schools are perfect, but charters in Baton Rouge are doing worse. Plus how is transportation supposed to work for 300 unaffiliated schools in BR? Uber?

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Why are there waiting lines for charter schools?

Transportation will take care of itself if education was completely voucher. Do you think a for profit school that would be getting the example $16600 voucher would let transportation issues prevent them from getting the kid to their school?

You people are grasping for reasons to continue to mandate family education matters.