Guida: Tuition Must Cover Costs
The Barrington School Commitee will shelve its "pilot program" for recruiting 10 out-of-district students for next year if tuition won't cover all costs for them.
Barrington will shelve its idea for a “pilot program” that recruits 10 out-of-district students to its top-ranked schools next year unless the tuition it charges covers the cost of educating those kids. That may be the most definite decision made about the pilot program so far, said School Committee Chairman Patrick Guida. The only other solid decisions made so far, said Guida, is that “we will not exceed 10 students at this point in time” and “we set the tuition at exactly our per-pupil expenditure, $12,800.” Other than that, Guida said: “All we’ve really said is that we want to do a pilot program. I don’t know yet where it will go.” “We have no criteria established,” he said. “We just know that we would like to test the waters to see if …
Manifold Witness
10:29 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
So which lawyer will be drafting the contracts for these 10 students? Because now this is a contractual relationship for the Barrington school district to provide certain educational services to these 10 purchasers. How much will it cost to draft these individualized contracts? This legal expense is not in the $12,800. What happens if one of these kids gets suspended? Do the parents stop paying … more ›