Over the years, Fordham Professor Bruce Cooper and I have consulted with literally dozens of school districts across the country, and invariably someone asks the same question (or variant on it): are per pupil school expenditures “reasonable” (or unreasonable, as they case may be)? At first glance, the question itself seems eminently reasonable, but rarely are we able to give an answer beyond “yes, they are reasonable.
The latest data comes from the software giant's ability to track the usage of an online tool that its engineers created to clean systems infected with the worm.
Borrowing a strategy from the corporate world, Virginia plans to form an elite cadre of principals armed with the skills needed to jump-start improvement in low-performing schools.
