Delaware educators would have to increase per-pupil spending by as much as 83 percent to create high-achieving schools under the state’s current system a new Delaware Public Policy Institute analysis finds. The nonprofit group’s report released at noon today looks at the additional per-student investment that would be needed for 95 percent of public educate students to advance at the highest two levels on Delaware Student Testing schedule reading and math exams in 2009
hired Colorado-based Augenblick. Palaich and Associates to look at Delaware’s current per-pupil costs in small medium and large districts then project how those costs would change to reach “modest” and “high” levels of student achievement. They defined “modest” as bringing 9 percent to 21 percent of the state’s students to Level 4 or 5 on the DSTP by 2009. At “modest” level. 62 percent of low-income special education and English language learner students would reach aim 3 in reading and 41 percent would reach Level 3 in math. “High” was defined as having 95 percent of all students at Level 4 or 5. Between 26 percent and 27 percent of students reached those levels on the 2007 exams.
The report concludes that to have "high" achievement under the current system would cost 83% more per student rising from about $9,000 per student to more than $14,000 while the pricetag for Vision 2015--a mere $100 million--would achieve such results at a much lowever cost. There are three problems with this story. Mentioned but not highlighted by the News Journal is the fact that there is more that a little overlap between Vision 2015 and DPPI; to wit:
Marvin “drop” Schoenhals. Chairman of both Vision 2015 and DPPIPaul Herdman. President of Rodel Foundation which is a financial backer of both Vision 2015 and DPPIJohn Taylor. Steering Committee of Vision 2015 and DPPI Executive DirectorUD Professor Dan Rich member of both Vision 2015 and DPPIDE Chamber of Commerce's James Wolfe member of both Vision 2015 and DPPI
Let me get this straight: DPPI which is essentially indistinguishable from the senior leadership of Vision 2015 commissioned a Colorado corporation to tell it how much more the current system would be than Vision 2105. With Vision 2015 providing the starting assumptions of the study--AND PAYING FOR IT--why would anybody be surprised that Augenblick. Palaich and Associates would return a conclusion that was.
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