T&T: Taxes and livaboards

[Alan Wagner]

We certainly do not spend $20,000 to educate a child here in Florida.  If I
am reading the public disclosure correctly, the Hillsborough County School
District (Tampa) has 187,694 kids in the system and spends just a tad over
$1,084,892,000 to do so.  That comes out to $5780 per child.  About 35% of
that comes from local taxes with almost all the rest from the state.
Details here (see page 3 and 27):

   http://www.sdhc.k12.fl.us/BUSDIV/Accounting/CAFR/pdfs/cafr05/cafr05_6.pdf

Alan Wagner
Tampa, Florida