[lbo-talk] Bill Gates, education reformer

[// ravi]

On Jul 25, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 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.”
> 

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