State Report Card
In$ite Chart #2:
Per Pupil Expenditures by District excluding Other Commitments
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Expenditures Excluding the Other Commitments Category (PDF format,
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WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
This chart 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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