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[QUOTE="husky429, post: 4675079, member: 6696"]
School budgeting is super complicated, so I'm not going to claim to be an expert. And I was sitting in a budget meeting Monday afternoon!

But it does seem like the city schools have gotten the short end of the stick with Magnet/Charter schools because they're still required to do special education and transportation for kids that live in the district. That's on top of just having less of a tax base in these areas, and CT has one of (maybe the?) highest percentage of local education funding of any state. Facilities also don't change... you can send 15% of your students to a magnet school, but Kolbe high school still needs to be heated to 65 degrees in the winter. Hartford and New Haven tend to soak up a lot of the state funding as well.

Looks like Bridgeport's per pupil spending is about 16k and the state average is 19k. About 20,000 students in the district. If my math is right, that means they're $60,000,000 short of the average for state spending-ish. That could pay for a decent soccer field.
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