Sure. But if you take X% of the students out of a school, the school does not become X% cheaper to operate; there are fixed costs and economies of scale.
If a charter (any charter) takes 400+ students out of the Somerville district (which is their eventual goal), the best-case scenario is that either a school closes and some students have to go further to get to school, or our property tax rates go up. It's not without costs.
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Date: 2011-12-09 01:00 am (UTC)If a charter (any charter) takes 400+ students out of the Somerville district (which is their eventual goal), the best-case scenario is that either a school closes and some students have to go further to get to school, or our property tax rates go up. It's not without costs.