An article in the Greenwich, CT, Time says that 75% of the town's 12,000 students attend public schools, and that the budget is $127 million per year, or $14,111 per student. Their schools are excellent, and likely the financial management has been magnificent and the debt portion of that spending minimal.
The $14,000 sticks in my mind; it is the amount that Susan Pace Hamill suggests needs to be spent to educate children who are raised in high-poverty neighborhoods.
The vast majority of Greenwich's public school children have plenty of advantages, and many go on to attend America's finest 4-year colleges.
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