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In$ite Chart #2: Per
pupil expenditures excluding the Other
Commitments category
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What you are looking at:
Chart #2 removes the “Other Commitments” category (and
students served out-of-district) for a picture of the
strictly educational costs within the district itself.
The chart is re-sorted, high to low by per pupil
expenditure, shuffling the districts somewhat as some of
the anomalous costs are removed. The value of the total
bar is represented in real numbers over to the right,
expressed as a per pupil expenditure.
What you are looking for:
Please note how much one category’s removal makes a
considerable difference in both the resulting PPE and in
that district’s placement on the chart. Each district
has decisions and circumstances that might strongly
affect one category, but not the others. For example, a
rural district whose children travel great distances on
a bus will have a relatively high per pupil
transportation cost; that district’s PPE will seem high
when the Operations category is included and drop with
seeming suddenness when it is removed.
New Shoreham
The New Shoreham district includes only Block Island,
where conducting any and all business is more expensive
than on the mainland. School lunch supplies, for
example, must be ferried or flown to the island,
incurring costs beyond the costs to a school to which a
truck has easy access. New Shoreham’s costs are high
across the board.
The career and technical programs and schools
Career and technical (C&T) education is generally more
expensive than regular education because of the
specialized machinery, materials, shops and so on.
Districts with their own dedicated C&T schools absorb
the full cost into the district (although many of the
buildings are owned and maintained by the state). Some
districts share the cost of a C&T center. Still others
send their students to one of the two state-operated C&T
schools – Davies and the Met – which absorb the cost
entirely for each student no matter where the child came
from. Thus C&T costs appear to be unevenly balanced
among the districts.
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