Check out this article from the NYTimes, it is interesting.
"The children’s “classroom” is 325 acres of state parkland known as the Hemlock Trail, and a long-empty farmhouse, which the state has licensed Waldorf to use for the year. The school also has regular indoor classes at its main building."
The tuition at the Waldorf school is $7000 (a year? a semester?). Compare this article to another one in the times about charter schools (publicly funded but privately run) which utilize 'space' in public schools...
ReplyDelete"Officials estimate that over all, the city’s schools are 80 percent full. But figures vary widely school to school, with some bursting while others have as many as a dozen classrooms not being used for teaching. Even determining how many rooms are free is contentious — most schools use open space for activities like dance, tutoring and computers — but Education Department officials often treat those rooms as “underutilized space” to allow another school to come in. "