School: It’s cheaper than jail

Published October 21, 2010 12:00am ET



It costs taxpayers more to jail a criminal than to educate a student.

Area schools spent an average of $85 a day per student, compared with $140 a day per inmate at area correctional facilities during the 2008 fiscal year, the most recent year for which data was available.

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