New Innovative
School District Spends Big on Public Relations, Applicant Reviews in First Year
Wagner, L. «New Innovative
School District spends big on public relations, applicant reviews in first year.»
Not exact matches
In a little over a month, voters in most
school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that
district's
spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the
biggest cut in overall state...
These guys are the
biggest hypocrites when it comes to
spending tax payer dollars in their
big budget
school district.
«Municipalities throughout New York State, including
school districts which are the
biggest driver of property taxes, have by and large responded to the cap with prudent budgeting, more efficiency and restrained
spending.»
Another, and perhaps even
bigger test, comes in the spring when
school districts put together their
spending plans.
And Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, another veteran Democrat who chairs that chamber's education committee, also predicted that the governor's decision to allow his Division of the Budget to oversee and potentially limit the
spending of
big school districts, such as New York City's, could backfire.
The
big picture: Most of the $ 675 million
spending plan — $ 391 million — is accounted for by the
school district budget, which was approved last month by the Board of Education.
Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more
school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the
bigger pie begins to be sliced.
The
big news out of the latest is official confirmation that
school districts spent less money per student in 2010 - 11 than they had the year before, the first one - year decline in nearly four decades.
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Big - city
school districts must
spend a large share of their budget for employee health - care benefits and pensions, a problem charters have escaped thus far.
Here is something
big - city
school, superintendents,
school boards, and teachers» unions know but don't tell:
districts spend less money per pupil in the
schools» serving the poorest children.
Swennes been in education for 17 years, all of those
spent in rural
school districts in Eastern Colorado; this is her 8th year as principal in the Big Sandy School Dis
school districts in Eastern Colorado; this is her 8th year as principal in the
Big Sandy
School Dis
School District.
Because there can be so much variation in poverty within a
school district (just think about the socio - economic differences between Tribeca and the Bronx), the Department of Education is making a
big push to calculate exactly how much each
school spends on a student.
This year, she wrote that Gates has «gotten bad advice,» explaining, «About a decade ago, he decided that the
biggest problem in U.S. education was the size of high
schools, and he proceeded to
spend $ 2 billion to persuade
school districts to downsize their high
schools.»
School districts spend most of their money on people, and one of the proposal's
biggest impacts would be on how teachers are distributed.
As noted by the journalist of this article, however, this is the
biggest concern with this (potentially)
big win for education in that «There is broad agreement that students should be tested less, but what agency wants to relinquish the ability to hold teachers, administrators and
school districts accountable for the money we [as a public]
spend on education?»