Charter School Spending Compared to DOE Spending
Some interesting (and not surprising) data on how NYC charter schools spend more on teacher salaries and classroom instruction than district schools:
A longstanding selling point of the charter school movement has been budget independence — that is, schools are given the freedom to allocate resources as they see fit, relatively free from government control. We decided to explore how this freedom is affecting allocation decisions.
We analyzed the spending breakdown, specifically as it relates to teacher salaries and classroom instruction expenditures, and found that, on average, charter schools devote 10 percent more of their budgets to teacher salaries and 14 percent more of their budgets to classroom instruction as compared to the Department of Education's budget for traditional schools.
posted by Whitney Tilson at 9:22 AM
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