Charter School Cost Efficiency

Yeah, yeah, that's right. Now I see the dangers of doing morning media. Um look, but you you're you're you're right. Um you know, the the we you we talked about this a few weeks ago, the operating costs per student day by day once the school's set up. The data we're releasing today shows that if you want to start a new school of a hundred students, uh, there's a cost to doing that for a state school, and there's a cost to doing that for a charter school. We actually give charter schools a much harder start um by about two hundred thousand dollars in their first year in terms of what they get to set up uh for a state school, they get funding for a principal, for example, for their first five terms, they get funding for a certain number of students for their first five terms. We basically fund them uh pretty generously for their first term. After that, they get uh paid for the number of students that go through the door. Uh and so as a result, uh those start-up components are actually lower for charges than for state schools. And I hope that if we keep just releasing hard data like this, we might even win over the union side.