Magnet School Tuition: Who's Paying?

Surprise, surprise! Super Adam-mickey-mowski of Hartford once again figures out new and even more f-ed up ways to Shake up the system without taking the time to understand it... Typical operating procedure for this Bozo! As they say in Texas All Hat and no cattle!

My question to Mr Adamowski would be who pays to educate the students that are bused to my town from Hartford?? I wonder if Hartford pays for them?

Sheff wanted this, let the plaintiff and the lawyers pay for it.

First his "Open Choice" policy is going up in flames and now this. Oh, and wait till he sees what his staff cuts have done next year as well.
Once Perez is out, so too shall he be.

We need more administrators in the Bloomfield system and at the state level to understand the socio-economic reuirements of "Magnet Funding" and "Tracking". Trained Education professionals can aply for grants and fill out the reports so the funding dollars are there. It's all about the children but if we can get about twenty five 135K jobs out of it to shuffle paper and play with metrics that helps us Education Bureaucrats. Because when all is said and done, no one knows what this black hole of waste costs.

I wondered when all the hype about the magnet schools would crumble to dust-- you mean no one in Hartford's Board of Education had enough foresight to realize that since there isn't enough funding for the public schools in Hartford there wouldn't be enough funds for the magnet schools there too?

Who hires these people?

Time to send those educators back to remedial math!

I don't understand why we have magnet schools. Aren't they just a parallel system that competes with public schools? Is the difference that local schools are locally funded and magnet schools are state funded? If so, why doesn’t the state just redirect the money it spends on magnet schools into Hartford public schools? Then there would be no need to shuttle kids all over the state.

Is there enough money to pay for public schools and semi private schools?I thought Hartford had little tax money.If everyone keeps going to the State and the Feds will there be enough money to pay for a public school system that already costs large sums of money.And why do we really need two or three school systems paid for with tax dollars?

The host town pays to educate the children bussed to your town. Once you accept Open Choice children, you are obligated to pay for the education until they graduate.....the money re-imbursed to the towns doesn't cover the costs of education, so the town ends up paying the difference.

Help me understand - we are sending black Bloomfield kids to Hartford to help desegregage the Hartford school? That doesn't make sense.

And are the other suburban schools who are taking kids in the old Project Concern billing the city of Hartford?

I have no problem, as a Bloomfield resident, in paying for the tuition..

Just as soon as our Board of Ed steps up the efforts to push the students who come from Hartford, use a false address and attend our schools. I sat at a table with a person who works with the schools last year, had a friend who interned at BHS...same story- students from Hartford coming in...

Hartford wants it all- they want to bus their students to the suburbs- then charge the suburbs when our students go into Hartford for school...

It is simple- everyone keep their own students...build up their own schools...

The mandating of racial balance AND asking the taxpayers to double dip, thus taking more money away from Town public school systems doesn't equate to the basis of the Sheff vs. O'Neill complaint: "free and equal education". Perhaps there is a basis for the surrounding Towns to challenge unconstitutionality of the increased taxation that would result in the magnet schools having more money per student available at the expense of the surrounding Towns?

It's always "For the children" until the rubber hits the road (until it really is).

Just me wrote:

Help me understand - we are sending black Bloomfield kids to Hartford to help desegregage the Hartford school? That doesn't make sense.
And are the other suburban schools who are taking kids in the old Project Concern billing the city of Hartford?

there is the right way, there is the wrong way, and then, there is the government way. crazy, eh?

Peter wrote:

I don't understand why we have magnet schools. Aren't they just a parallel system that competes with public schools? Is the difference that local schools are locally funded and magnet schools are state funded? If so, why doesn’t the state just redirect the money it spends on magnet schools into Hartford public schools? Then there would be no need to shuttle kids all over the state.

oh, but then you would have the problem of the minority being the majority. understand? if you do understand, would you kindly explain to me, i do not understand this

Hartford should disincorporate and get out of running schools altogether. The Hartford Board of Ed is chronically and intractably dysfunctional, they should just quit.

Give the south end to wethersfield, the west end to west hartford, and the north end to bloomfield.
Let the surrounding towns collect the taxes and school all the kids.
The City can keep downtown, maintain the downtown streets, and tax the big buildings to pay marketers for their dumb slogans.

end the madness wrote:

Hartford should disincorporate and get out of running schools altogether. The Hartford Board of Ed is chronically and intractably dysfunctional, they should just quit.
Give the south end to wethersfield, the west end to west hartford, and the north end to bloomfield.
Let the surrounding towns collect the taxes and school all the kids.
The City can keep downtown, maintain the downtown streets, and tax the big buildings to pay marketers for their dumb slogans.

Give the north end to Windsor - Bloomfield has its own problems!

Who owns the land where the Magnet schools are located? How much rent do they pay? I say this as it has become a racket in Hartford to build buildings on land owned by others and pay rent on the land, like the Main St Library and the Goodwin Hotel...

Question answered wrote:

The host town pays to educate the children bussed to your town. Once you accept Open Choice children, you are obligated to pay for the education until they graduate.....the money re-imbursed to the towns doesn't cover the costs of education, so the town ends up paying the difference.

That figure is roughly $2500/ open choice student. I believe the town gets an extra $1000/student if there are more than 10 students in a school.

Special Ed services are supposed to be reimbursed by Hartford, if the host town remembers to bill for them

Bussing is paid by CREC

Biggest problem is that hte money doesn't follow the student.

As I understand it, Classical Magnet has been very successful at turning out educated students with some chance at a future -- don't know the records of the other schools. Considering how poor the HPS system is, it's nice to see at least one school helping kids get out of this rathole.