Sentences with phrase «although spending per student»

Although spending per student has in fact gone up in Poland (largely because of declining birth rates and a declining student population), the growth in per - student spending remains well below the growth in education spending in other countries.

The 11th edition of the Washington - based association's yearly report says that although spending per student has increased nationwide by 53 percent in the past 20 years, 73 percent of public school 8th graders taking the National Assessment of Educational Progress mathematics exam in 2003 performed below the level of proficient.

Not exact matches

The education budget will fall to $ 953 million in fiscal 2008 from $ 955 million in fiscal 2007, although per - pupil spending is projected to rise slightly because of a small decline in student enrollment, according to the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development.

Although there is a reduction in the school's overall budget, there is actually more money available (per capita) to spend on the students who choose to remain there.

Although students had about two hours per day in literacy activities in addition to the time spent in literacy rotation, this structure was an important design feature of the overall reading program.

Indeed, as per a statement made by Ron Adler, president of the Ohio Coalition for Quality Education, not only is it «disappointing that ODE spends so much time denying that poverty and mobility of students impedes their ability to generate academic performance... they [continue to] remain absolutely silent about the state's broken report card and continually defend their value - added model that offers no transparency and creates wild swings for schools across Ohio» (i.e., the EVAAS system, although in all fairness all VAMs and the SGP yield the «wild swings» noted).

Most Atlantic readers know that, although the U.S. spends more per student on K - 12 education than any other nation except Luxembourg, students in a growing number of nations outperform our own.

In other words, although the typical ESA student would receive only about one - fifth of the $ 18,216 that New Hampshire district schools spend per pupil, on average, the funding level would still put a wide variety of educational options within reach of the average Granite State family.

Their willingness to do so is one of the reasons Denver can afford to spend about $ 10,000 per student although the state sends less than that.

Although they represent the extremes, these very different districts illustrate a troubling pattern that emerges in the school - spending data: The 10 most expensive schools have some of the lowest graduations rates, and the 10 schools that spend the least per student have some of the highest.

Although the city's records on spending per student generally and in any particular school are difficult to pin down because of all of the accounting intricacies, the best estimate is that it costs at least $ 19,358 per year to educate each student on the public side of the building, or $ 980 more than on the charter side.

According to Nordstrom's report, charter schools statewide receive about $ 215 more in local spending per student than their traditional school counterparts, although the funding amount varies depending on the district.