If only small percentage of students will actually benefit from one additional SEHS, and if CPS is in a budget crisis, why build another very expensive selective enrollment high school, especially using TIF monies to do so?
"Pupil residency has always been a concern of school districts, but because education has become so much more expensive and with enrollment in some districts actually bursting at the seams, there is no question this has become a much more urgent issue," said Thomas Murphy, a spokesman for the State Department of Education.
But how much more expensive should the special enrollment pool be, compared to the overall exchange population?
The five policies actually used by state ADAPs (first come first serve, limiting expensive medicines, limiting new patient enrollment, giving the expensive medicines to the sickest, using a spending cap) lacked support in either group.
Now if workers choose COBRA coverage, even for a month, they are trapped within its much more expensive coverage until the next open enrollment period, Ballman wrote in a recent post on Aol Jobs.
Some have the kind of work or life experience that ought to translate into college credits, making their enrollment faster and less expensive, but few schools use the "competency-based education" model allowing this.
However, since it appears that automatic admissions increases flagship enrollment at the expense of private university attendance, it may be that students attend more expensive colleges.
It is more expensive to offer classes with smaller enrollments, and it requires the faculty to adopt new methods.
Also, newborn babies, who probably account for a sizable plurality of special enrollment cases, are "much more expensive than other children" and remain so for their first year. .
