Guest guest Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 $7 billion in reserve sounds like a lot of money until you consider that Texas had 4,576,993 students enrolled in public schools in the 2006-2007 school year. That breaks down to $1,529 per enrolled student. These numbers came from http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/aeis/2007/state.html .. When you consider that per pupil spending for the 2005-2006 school year (most recent available at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/cgi/sas/broker) was $7,504 how much difference could an additional $1,529 per child make? Tonya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 What if we run those number based on students with autism? Wasn't it something like 17,000 estimated for fiscal impact of SB 1000? I'm getting $41,177 per student. Sounds like a lot to me. > > $7 billion in reserve sounds like a lot of money until you consider that > Texas had 4,576,993 students enrolled in public schools in the 2006-2007 > school year. That breaks down to $1,529 per enrolled student. These > numbers came from http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/aeis/2007/state.html > . When you consider that per pupil spending for the 2005-2006 school year > (most recent available at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/cgi/sas/broker) was > $7,504 how much difference could an additional $1,529 per child make? > > > > Tonya > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 Tonya, Let's face it, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York provide private placement and we are talking facilities, ABA and services that are up and over $50K. These states struggle just as much to pay these costs, but they comply with FAPE. They are years ahead of us and Texas is losing ground because TEA is moving along at its bureaucratic speed. $50K is a great deal more than 7.5K. It is time that TEA complies with FAPE. Take the money away from the attorneys and let's use it for private placement NOW. Mark > > $7 billion in reserve sounds like a lot of money until you consider that > Texas had 4,576,993 students enrolled in public schools in the 2006- 2007 > school year. That breaks down to $1,529 per enrolled student. These > numbers came from http://www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/aeis/2007/state.html > . When you consider that per pupil spending for the 2005-2006 school year > (most recent available at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/cgi/sas/broker) was > $7,504 how much difference could an additional $1,529 per child make? > > > > Tonya > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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