[RetiredTexasVet]

If they could get that figure up to $54k per student, they should be able to graduate 50-55 percent providing that they dumb the curriculum down with Common Core and give them an opt out for testing.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Anyone who’s been to Camden knows money isn’t going to fix the educational system. Neither will Common Core. /S

[mrsmel]

I would say that I guess they learned nothing from the billion dollar Kansas City boondoggle, if I didn’t already realise that actually teaching students anything isn’t the point. It’s back-door reparations, like so many of these programs which just get recycled under a different name.

[Jeff Chandler]

30 kids at 27 grand each comes to $810,000.00 per year. Could you teach a class of kids for that kind of money?

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Classrooms in Camden often come equipped with smartboards, iPads, and laptops. But in the same rooms teachers might lack access to a working printer, the tech support they need to use the smartboard,

All they really need is a whiteboard and some pens. The rest of that junk is a complete waste of money.

[BobL]

Right next to Houston is the North Forest School District. The people running that operation simply used used it as a way to enrich themselves - and no one doubts that as millions of dollars simply cannot be accounted for. So Houston is taking them over...and improvement, somewhat.

Lots of blame to go around but, at a minimum, you simply cannot let Third World types run anything without adult supervision, or you get Third World results - no matter how much taxpayer money you shower on them.