Between 2002-2006 tuition at private colleges went up 13%
while spending on instruction went up <1%.

Costs in that period increased at a rate more than 15 times more than the increased spending on student’s instruction.

Additionally, of the cost accounting category “Educational Spending”, only 40% is spent on actual instruction and that number is decreasing.

These statistics were gleaned from reports by The Delta Cost Project

Apologies to anyone who has been waiting for some news about the status of The Saxifrage School project. The last 4 months or so we have been spending our time establishing a development team and getting some work done.

This early stage of the project has been focused on establishing some basis for our legitimacy and finalizing the core ideas of the School.

So far we have:

- established a development team with 10 members
- a mission and vision statement (read them on the “About” page)
- incorporated with the state of Pennsylvania as a non-profit entity
- by-laws
- done serious work writing the final proposal for the School (financial and staffing, analysis, lists of important campus criteria, etc.)

In the coming months we hope to do assessments of 5 different neighborhoods around the City in an attempt to decide both what sort of neighborhood the school needs, but also to work towards making a final decision as to where the school will settle down.

An official board of directors is also not far away. If you know of anyone who may be interested in joining the work of this project in an official capacity, let us know soon.

The past few months, despite the lack of web-content, have certainly been the most productive thus far in making The Saxifrage School a reality. A lot of good ideas have been found, refined, and documented and a good groundwork for our organization has been formed.

The coming year and its ambitious plans have great potential and we will commit to updating this website (soon to be remade!) more frequently.

Hopefully this short post is the beginning of a history as we attempt to make a pie in the sky.