Reply #34: How old are the school buildings in Milwaukee?

[proud2BlibKansan]

What are their energy costs?

How many kids are transported to school? How many have parents who have transportation or live close enough to walk to school?

After salaries, the biggest item in an urban school district's budget is transportation.

How many kids in Milwaukee's schools don't speak English? How many are special Ed? Both ELL and Sped programs have larger numbers in low income urban areas.

How many kids in Milwaukee are living at poverty level? Educating our poor is more expensive.

It's ignorant and shows you fail to grasp the every day factors that impact our urban schools to just quote the per pupil cost and expect outrage. Here's a clue, brainiac: the kids in Milwaukee are indeed more expensive to educate. That's a fact in every urban district in the country.

As for condemning the Arizona law, good for them. I would imagine there is a significant percentage of Hispanic students in the Milwaukee district. The school board in my district recently took the time to endorse the Dream Act and I'm very proud of them for understanding how important that legislation is to a significant number of our kids.