[CGTRWK]

$6k as the "cash equivalent" value that each voucher would bestow to school age children for their education every year. Is that a Milton Friedman heyday number (1980's) that never got updated

Most of the staggering growth in per pupil average spending isn't education for regular students, it is "special ed" - and specifically the "special ed" that encompasses medical care and personal nurses for the most severely broken kids. Never mind $34,000 for these pregnant girls, think $50,000 a year as a floor. The DC public schools spend nearly 25% of their budget on crackbabies in what amount to private contract nursing homes at an average of $70,000 a body a year. These kids aren't going to take advantage of vouchers.

$6,000 yearly for a regular student is on the low end in most places, certainly a place with the cost of living of NYC, but not by so much as you'd think.

[neverdem]

The DC public schools spend nearly 25% of their budget on crackbabies in what amount to private contract nursing homes at an average of $70,000 a body a year.

Source please?