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		<title>By: What&#8217;s missing from Public Agenda survey &#171; Education News Colorado Opinion &#38; Commentary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: allen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago it was revealed that the Cincinnati school district was hemorrhaging kids to charters which had an impact on the state per-student funding of course but didn&#039;t have any effect on the locally-derived funding. 

It seems obvious that the best outcome would be to dump all the kids on the charters, fire the teachers and close the schools. That way the administration would have about a hundred million dollars in funding to pay them to continue doing what they&#039;re doing right now.

In a somewhat analogous fashion Hawaii could gradually whittle down the number of days of school, getting rid of superfluous teachers along the way, until the number of days dropped to zero as did the number of teachers and the central administration could formulate policy without worrying about whether it&#039;d be properly executed.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple of years ago it was revealed that the Cincinnati school district was hemorrhaging kids to charters which had an impact on the state per-student funding of course but didn&#8217;t have any effect on the locally-derived funding. </p>
<p>It seems obvious that the best outcome would be to dump all the kids on the charters, fire the teachers and close the schools. That way the administration would have about a hundred million dollars in funding to pay them to continue doing what they&#8217;re doing right now.</p>
<p>In a somewhat analogous fashion Hawaii could gradually whittle down the number of days of school, getting rid of superfluous teachers along the way, until the number of days dropped to zero as did the number of teachers and the central administration could formulate policy without worrying about whether it&#8217;d be properly executed.</p>
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