Education

TL;DR: Don Austin is gone, but math is still pointing towards trouble. We’re paying $35,000 per student - and need to cut staff to cover growing costs. We had some drama recently at PAUSD. Don Austin said some things that teachers and students didn’t like. Students said some things that Don Austin didn’t like. In the end, Don Austin quit. However, the root of this is math - not multivariable …

TL;DR (PAUSD vs Harker): Harker doubles your top-50 odds (though there is selection bias), UCs are the most common outcome for PAUSD, and Foothill is smarter than it sounds. I wanted to get some clarity on what the actual data looks like - expecially comparing public school in Palo Alto with other private schools in the bay area. Fortunately, PAUSD publishes detailed matriculation data for both …