When I was the president of the Crawford High School Foundation the San Diego Unified School District had inter-foundation meetings at the district’s administration office. A school board member spoke at one of the meetings and addressed the district’s budget shortage and potential cuts. In a classic example of doublespeak I commented that this was not the time to save pet programs and that the district needed to evaluate the cost of the program against the lost average daily attendance revenue if students transferred to other schools or dropped out.The cost-efficiency of any school district program must thus be based on whether the increased or decreased revenue from attendance justifies the cost of adding, retaining, or dropping the program. It may now be cost-effective for the S
