Visiting http://www.mpls.k12.mn.us/about/report_2001/challenges_progress.shtml, I found that Minneapolis spent $10,226 per pupil in 2000. Did our per-pupil expenditures increase by $6,000 over the past two years? If not, I'd like to know how 7,450 plus 9,000 equals 10,226.
On a related note, 70 percent of Minneapolis students qualified for free or reduced-price school lunches, compared to 48 percent of Austin students. Poverty doesn't explain everything, but we're not exactly comparing apples to apples here. I'm sure there are legitimate questions to be asked of our local school district, just as there are legitimate questions to be asked of the AISD. However, as was the case with the city council math discussion we had earlier this week, it will help us to stick to factually valid statistics whenever possible. Dana Bacon Page neighborhood --- Victoria Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a suggestion....... > > Someone might contact the school board in our sister > city Austin, Texas to > find out how they deliver education for $9,000 LESS > per student than Minneapolis. > > Districtwide Per Student Spending: $7,450 > Districtwide Median SAT: 1052 > Average Elementary School Performance: 75% > (% of students who pass standardized performance > tests) > Districtwide Student/Teacher Ratio: 20.8 > > Vicky Heller > Cedar-Riverside and North Oaks __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
