Sentences with phrase «with per pupil»

With per pupil spending at record highs, and educational attainment stagnant at best, our return on investment has never been worse.

WHEREAS, the OSPP is financed with per pupil payments that would typically go to support MPS, leaving less money available for already under - funded public schools; and

Not exact matches

This year the state returns to more familiar territory, with some of the nation's largest class sizes, near the lowest per - pupil spending and a finish in the bottom tier for the category.

Except in areas with a very high level of spending per pupil, the homestead rate will be lower than the general rate.

Per the source, De Boer wants to be reunited with his former pupil who he coached during his stint at Ajax.

With an allocated rate of # 2.30 per pupil per meal fixed for 2015 - 2016, schools are able to budget ahead and take advantage of the improved economies of scale.

With just seven per cent of gifted and talent pupils receiving free school meals, the Liberal Democrats point out children from low income families are half as likely to be identified as gifted.

The state budget is expected to include $ 54 million for per pupil grants in aid for charter schools, according to a source familiar with the agreement.

«I'm guaranteeing for the next three years - and I've agreed this with the chancellor of the exchequer - that funding per - pupil will keep rising for every school - in fact, it will rise on average by more than 2 %, that's more than cost pressures.»

He was rewarded with extra funding to cut class sizes, and subsequently there has since 1997 been a massive increase in literacy and numeracy, and there are 42,000 more teachers than in 1997, with doubled spending per pupil in frontline [clarification needed] schools (and over 100,000 teaching assistants) through to 2010.

«One year ago, with the promise of Education Tax Credits on the horizon, thousands of tuition - paying families were left out in the cold — excluded from a state budget that provides the nation's highest level of spending per pupil in public schools,» he said.

The Senate proposal would also bolster charter schools, with provisions to increase per - pupil tuition that public schools must pay to charters, guarantee that charter schools won't have to pay rent to use public school buildings, and allow charter schools to offer pre-kindergarten.

The Greene County school district spends $ 34,878 per pupil, compared with $ 13,492 per pupil at General Brown Central School District in Jefferson County.

Cuomo said with New York's per - pupil spending already so high, gaining information about equity was «the real issue.»

«The truth is that New York dedicates more money per pupil to education than any other state — including over $ 25.8 billion in this year's budget,» Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, said in a statement, «and we'll continue to work to strengthen our public schools and provide New York children with the education they deserve.»

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

This accounted for 51.2 per cent of lawful classes with over 30 pupils.

The thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.

During the upcoming session, charter groups will focus on boosting facilities funding and the state's per - pupil funding formula after notching a modest victory with a 50 - school increase in the statewide charter cap last year.

During his testimony, de Blasio raised several concerns about Cuomo's proposed $ 145 billion budget and pleaded with lawmakers to, among other things, reject the governor's attempt to claw back more than $ 600 million in savings from a recent debt refinancing and his call for the city to provide more per - pupil funding to charter schools.

The previous NPP government, led by former President John Agyekum Kufour, reinforced free basic education through the disbursement of capitation grants, with an initial amount of GHC 3.00 per pupil...

Tkaczyk's assertions were in line with Superintendent Seth Turner's presentation to the board at the December meeting, during which business administrator Lissa Jilek said the gap elimination adjustment has cost the district $ 11.7 million since 2010, an amount which is equal to 4.1 percent of the total operating budget, and breaks down to over $ 800 per pupil.

The $ 430 - per - pupil aid to charter schools is aimed at keeping pace with increases for traditional public schools, Cuomo said Thursday night in his budget briefing.

Provided an additional $ 76.6 million in Tax limitation aidfor districts with high residential tax burdens and for districts that provide a high amount of local per pupil funds.

Now a primary school with fewer than 60 per cent of pupils achieving the basic standard of level 4 in reading, writing and maths (that increases to 65 per cent next year), and fewer pupils than average making the expected levels of progress between KS1 and KS2 will be taken over.

Sure, some are great — but most aren't and overall, the city Department of Education doesn't begin to produce results commensurate with the $ 22,000 it spent per pupil last year.

«At the extremes, the pupil premium in the local authority with the lowest total funding per pupil (Wokingham) is about two - and - a-half times greater than the value of the pupil premium in the local authority with the highest level of funding per pupil (Tower Hamlets).»

In 18 of them, the increase in the size of the pupils was pronounced — an average change of 23 per cent after half an hour — compared with a «minimal» 5 per cent in a group of 32 healthy elderly people.

The study found that specialist primary teachers are six per cent less effective than their non-specialist colleagues, with data showing pupils who were taught by subject specialists saw a drop in their grades.

What's more, in the 1995 - 96 school year, the tiny, 260 - student Sausalito district that includes the school spent $ 12,100 per student, compared with $ 4,977 per pupil statewide.

In the same survey, 84 per cent of teachers stated that LOtC improved their relationships with their pupils.

Yet among the 41 states (and the District of Columbia) with charter laws, only 17 provide some kind of direct facilities aid, either capital grants or per - pupil funding, and just three of those provide annual per - pupil capital funding of more than $ 1,000.

According to the models comparing high - scoring F schools with low - scoring D schools, to achieve the same 5 - point gain in math that the threat of vouchers accomplished, Florida schools would need to increase per - pupil spending by $ 3,484 at previously failing schools.

Incidents of physical attacks were far more prevalent in primary schools with 48 per cent of staff reporting pupils being physically aggressive, compared with 20 per cent working at secondary level.

With the average amongst the EU member states standing at 12.9 pupils aged 14 - 16 per teacher, the UK has 26.1 - according to Eurostat.

Jenny Whittle, Conservative councillor and committee chair, has said that figures are improving with grammar pupils eligible for free school meals now over three per cent, but admitted she would like to see that figure doubled.

Even though the UK fares better in the bracket of lower secondary education (aged 10 - 13) its 14.3 pupils per teacher is only lower than the Netherlands (16.0) and France (15.1) in the EU, with the average being 12.6.

English and Maths saw some of the largest falls, with the proportion of pupils gaining A * - C in English falling 5.2 per cent to 60.2 per cent and maths dropping 2.3 percentage points.

But, in areas with consistently low densities of high performing school places, the proportion of pupils with access to such places fell from just six per cent in 2010 to five per cent in 2015.

From its meager per - pupil allocation, Omega had to pay for all staffing, food services, special education, facilities, instructional materials (books, computers, etc.), and other expenses associated with running a school.

Over half (51 per cent) say staff numbers at their school have decreased in the last two years, with nearly two - thirds (65 per cent) saying they are not able to give pupils as much individual attention in lessons due to the loss of support staff and a similar number (64 per cent) saying pupils are not always taught by a teacher trained for the subject or age range due to the loss of teaching staff.

Either run with one answer sheet per pupil or put the students into teams and let them choose a scribe.

They also do not differ significantly in their initial per - pupil spending, average class size, percentage of students receiving subsidized school lunches, percentage of students with limited English proficiency or disabilities, and the mobility of their student populations.

These grammar schools have faced criticism for their intake of poorer pupils, with just three per cent of grammar school pupils receiving free school meals, compared to 15 per cent in comprehensives.

Many states, for instance, attempt to make up for the lack of local funding for charters with additional state assistance on a per - pupil basis.

Figures show 55 per cent of pupils in mixed schools achieved five good GCSEs including English and maths, while single - sex schools maintained a higher proportion with 75 per cent of pupils getting the same results.

The number of top schools with less than six per cent of disadvantaged pupils is also down from 57 per cent in 2013 to 39 per cent in 2016.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

States also receive lower scores for restrictions on the scholarship sizes below the lower of either $ 10,000 or parity with public school spending per pupil.

The Council is the largest in the UK to retain a mainly selective school system, with 25 per cent of secondary school age pupils attending one of the 33 grammar schools in the area.