On Jul 25, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Seth Kulick wrote:
> In the interview, Gates says what cheers him up when he gets
> "depressed about giving money in this area":
>
> On the fraught issue of school choice, his foundation has been a
> strong advocate of charter schools, and Mr. Gates is particularly fond
> of the KIPP charter network and its focus on serving inner-city
> neighborhoods. "Whenever you get depressed about giving money in this
> area," he volunteers, "you can spend a day in a KIPP school and know
> that they are spending less money than the dropout factory down the
> road."
But they're not. They're spending 1/3 more.
http://www.edweek.org/media/kippstudy.pdf
"Combining public and private sources of revenue, KIPP received, on average, $18,491 per pupil in 2007-08. This is $6,500 more per pupil than what the local school districts received in revenues."