Education can be pricey...
Apr. 13th, 2009 01:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c9"Goodsprings Elementary is a three-room schoolhouse with just six students: a fifth-grader, four fourth-graders and Briana, who is in first grade. If no one else moves to town, she will be the only student left at the start of the 2010-11 school year.
The board of the Clark County School District was poised to close Goodsprings Elementary in May, but protests from parents and residents persuaded the board to delay the decision a year.
The T-shaped, 1,800-square-foot, sand-colored building costs $220,450 annually in salaries and utilities, or approximately $36,742 per pupil, according to district data. That is more than five times as much as the $7,000 per-pupil average for the district, which serves about 300,000 students in mostly overcrowded urban schools where classes of over 30 children are common." - http://ping.fm/RDvSC
The board of the Clark County School District was poised to close Goodsprings Elementary in May, but protests from parents and residents persuaded the board to delay the decision a year.
The T-shaped, 1,800-square-foot, sand-colored building costs $220,450 annually in salaries and utilities, or approximately $36,742 per pupil, according to district data. That is more than five times as much as the $7,000 per-pupil average for the district, which serves about 300,000 students in mostly overcrowded urban schools where classes of over 30 children are common." - http://ping.fm/RDvSC
