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[POLL] Should Johnston Accept Out-Of-District Students for a Fee?
The Barrington School Committee is considering accepting 10 such students next year, for tuition of $12,800 per pupil — do you think Johnston should follow suit?
The Barrington School Committee made a splash earlier this week when they said the School Department would accept out-of-district students willing to pay $12,800 a year to attend Barrington schools. They have since stepped back a bit, but with ever-tightening school budgets, we wondered whether our readers thing the Johnston School Department should explore such a proposal here. “We’re looking at new sources of revenue,” said Barrington Supt. Robert McIntyre in a story on the topic in Thursday's Providence Journal. “This is new. It’s different. It’s an opportunity for us.” Two things drove the decision, the ProJo reported, the need to raise more revenue and a decline in enrollment. As reported by RI Future, however, there could be legal …
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Robert "Bobby" Giarusso
8:58 pm on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Johnston schools are actually better than many others in this state. Our elder daughter attended private parochial school for grades K to 8. When tuition was raised to almost $11,000 we decided it was best to send her to JHS and put the money into her college fund. Our daughter who was in advanced classes in her private school was not academically prepared for honors, AP, and EEP courses at the … more ›