Wilma,
I'm not sure what you mean by "outspend the 'educational partner'."
Penn's contribution to PAS, for instance, is $1,000/pupil/annum; the
School District's contribution is, what, $6,000-$9,000? So who runs this
budget, in the end -- Penn or the School District? If you've 30 years in
this business, I bet you can pass a good judgement.
I don't think it's just "Penn professors" who will not send their kids
to "local area high schools" if they can help it. All sorts of
Philadelphian parents, from all income levels, are looking for a way
out. Thus the charter-school movement. Thus the theme HS movement (I
don't think they use "magnet school" jatrgon anymore). This city is
popping with working-class, minority-driven charter schools right now. I
reserve judgement on this movement; but there it is.
As for the "different ilk" these private partners are seeking ... do you
truly think Bill and Melinda Gates spent all that money on the HS of the
Future just because they were trying to gentrify West Philadelphia?
They're in Seattle, for Pete's sake.
-- Tony West
Wilma de Soto wrote:
That I don’t know, but it seems a bit like a spinoff of the current
Private/Public Management/Charter School Educational Ballyhoo Tsunami.
Instead of just usual two-tiered system of either you go to a special
high school magnet program, or the Gulag regular school program with
the hoi polloi, you have an added twist of financial investment and
partnership of private institutions determining public educational
policies.
It would seem to me that adds yet another stratum. Either you outspend
the ‘educational partner’,which most community associations can’t do,
or become absorbed by them.
Anyone who take public transport during the school rush hours (arrival
and dismissal times) would probably think as I do that most Penn
professors would not send their children to local area high schools
with the the population that is there now.
I am not saying they should or should not, only it’s hard for me to
visualize these proposals are specifically targeted with those kids in
mind. It just doesn’t ring true for me.
I could be wrong but my gut (and nearly 30 years in the business),
tells me it’s a different ilk they wish to attract when these sorts of
financial investments are made in local schools.
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