Yet, despite all the negatives, purchasing a portable classroom costs roughly one - half what it costs to build a new permanent classroom, and so, good or bad, budget - crunched school districts are likely to continue making the «portable» choice. (educationworld.com)
Texas schools would count the salaries of librarians — but not those of nurses, guidance counselors, or bus drivers — as instructional expenses under proposed rules that would define how districts would comply with a new state mandate to spend 65 percent of their budgets on classroom costs. (edweek.org)
Drains limited resources away from classrooms costing students learning opportunities and courses such as art and music (fundeducationnow.org)