Heavily subsidize? Last year, the charter school my kids attend got $1300 less per student than the non-charters in the district. The school has roughly 1200 students. That means we probably saved someone (district? state? not exactly sure the break down of funding sources) roughly $1,560,000 that year over having all those students in the non-charter schools. At the very least, the other non-charter schools got more (per student) than they would have (assuming there isn't a magical $1.56M sitting around, the schools would have received somewhere in between the two numbers for ALL students).
Transfers of facilities space? The school recently took out a loan and bought an empty business complex to renovate as our new campus because the campus we were using was an old run down school that the district had already closed several years prior to us moving in. They closed it (and two others in the district) due to budget cuts. Closing these schools caused teachers to lose their jobs & class sizes at the remaining schools to increase.
Transfers of facilities space? The school recently took out a loan and bought an empty business complex to renovate as our new campus because the campus we were using was an old run down school that the district had already closed several years prior to us moving in. They closed it (and two others in the district) due to budget cuts. Closing these schools caused teachers to lose their jobs & class sizes at the remaining schools to increase.