A Follow Up to My Last Post

I sat through a long presentation by Dr. Mack from Dayton Public Schools on Thursday evening at the Southeast Dayton Priority Board office. He made every effort to explain how changes in State funding are causing a projected $30 million deficit in their $182 million spending budget (Not $225 million since they have to give charter schools $43 million.) That is still over $11,000 per child. He did elaborate on the fact that 20% of DPS students are "special needs" cases and some of those cause the costs of education to be higher since private and charter schools are not obligated to teach those students.
I asked one question. "If the 6000 charter school students attended DPS, would we need the levy?" His answer was a firm "No." Which pretty much proved the point of Wednesdays post.

I also pointed out that a private school education costs $5000 to $7000 a year in this region.

I think it is wrong for any organization to impose a tax when you fear and cannot keep pace with your competition.