[FRIZ]

...The district(District of Columbia)clearly needs to do something. It spends more than $12,000 per student and has only 15 pupils for every teacher. Still, fewer than 10 percent of the district's eighth-grade students are proficient in reading, math, and science, according to national assessments...


National Review
September 24, 2003
Opportunity For Me, Not For Thee
By Krista Kafer
Congressional kids and fairness in public policy.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/kafer200309240906.asp

[pax]

There's an inverse ratio between per-student spending and standardized test scores -- not just in DC, but everywhere in America.

You could look it up.

pax

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