Sentences with phrase «as per pupil funding»

For years, their schools were forced to redirect scarce instructional dollars toward facilities costs — even as per pupil funding was held flat.»

They will note that vouchers in DC are worth almost 1/3 as much as the per pupil funding received by DC's traditional public schools and almost half as much as DC's charter schools.

Not exact matches

Dayton wants to draw on the state's $ 329 million surplus and spread the funds across all districts as additional per - pupil funding.

The Spending Review admits as much as it only plans to maintain per pupil funding in cash terms.

A spokesman for Governor Cuomo says New York «spends three times as much per pupil in high needs districts than it does on low needs districts, and that funding has only increased over the past four years».

A spokesman for Cuomo says New York «spends three times as much per pupil in high needs districts than it does on low needs districts, and that funding has only increased over the past four years.»

As a result, even as net district school funding decreases due to charter enrollment, total per - pupil funding effectively increaseAs a result, even as net district school funding decreases due to charter enrollment, total per - pupil funding effectively increaseas net district school funding decreases due to charter enrollment, total per - pupil funding effectively increases.

Districts are reimbursed through another funding stream for students who have left traditional district schools for charters: 100 percent of per - pupil in the first year, 25 percent for the next five years, as well as an annual per - pupil facilities cost of approximately $ 900 dollars.

PLCs generally receive the same per - pupil funding as traditional schools.

«Same class size, same funding per pupil as their coed public counterparts,» he says.

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

Therefore, federal courts should eschew simple one - size - fits - all remedies such as mandating equal per - pupil funding.

Arguments to equalize funding ignore the reality that in many places, schools with concentrations of poor or academically struggling students already receive at least as much funding per pupil as other schools.

As they reach more students, they should earn more out of the per - pupil funds generated by the expanded number of students.

Rather, the state board's order was treated merely as a directive to the local board to negotiate with the applicant concerning the «issues necessary to permit the applicant to open a charter school,» including, in the Denver case, questions of the site of the school and per - pupil funding.

Schools with pupils classed as «deprived» in publically funded non-mainstream settings including Special Schools, General Hospital Schools, Pupil Referral Units and 14 - 15 year olds in Further Education (FE) Colleges will also attract a Premium of # 600 per annum.

It brings us back to Brown v. Board of Education and forward to Abbott v. Burke, the New Jersey Supreme Court decision holding that an «adequate» education, as required by the state constitution, requires a certain level of per - pupil funding.

Riverside, which had been losing enrollment as its surrounding community aged, has seen a modest rise to about 42,200 students, and with that, an increase in its per - pupil - based state funding.

As our survey did two years ago, we asked respondents a variety of factual questions: whether charter schools can hold religious services, charge tuition, receive more or less per - pupil funding than traditional public schools, and are legally obligated to admit students randomly when oversubscribed.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

A survey of over 600 ATL members working in state - funded schools in England found that 83 per cent of education staff did not think SEND pupils were adequately supported, with 58 per cent stating that pupils who are officially identified as having SEN do not receive the help they need to reach their potential.

As in many locations, New Hampshire law requires the per - pupil funds to pass from the state through local school districts, and then to charter schools.

The survey also found that one in five teachers did not know what the main priorities for their pupil premium funding was, with early intervention schemes cited as the most common priority for spending, identified by 28 per cent of respondents.

As for the latter, states must to find ways to get charter schools to a decent level of per - pupil funding, plus facilities funding, if not in comparison to traditional public schools then at least in terms of real dollars.

The situation is likely to get even worse, as it's predicted that 17,942 (nine out of ten) primary and secondary schools in England and Wales will be hit by a real - terms cut in funding per pupil between 2015 - 19.

Faced with relatively high per - pupil costs for music classes and limited funds, District 3 chose to offer fewer (larger) music classes as a deliberate strategy to free funds for more (smaller) core courses.

Despite the government's claims to be concerned about underfunded areas, some of the largest staffing cuts are in the areas with the lowest average funding per pupil such as: Reading, Isle of Wight, Central Bedfordshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, York, Derby and Milton Keynes.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

Once full, free schools receive exactly the same per - pupil funding as any state school.

Our district is funded $ 20 million less than the average school district in Kentucky based on per pupil spending for our size but our focus on the right priorities such as instructional coaches allows us to continue to improve academic gains.

Although the funding per pupil is less than half of what is spent by state schools, results are at least as good, says Aneela Salman, PEF's managing director.

With respect to the per - pupil facilities aid program (under which the Secretary makes competitive matching grants to states to provide per - pupil financing to charter schools), the bill allows states to: (1) partner with organizations to provide up to 50 % of the state share of funding for the program; and (2) receive more than one program grant, so long as the amount of the grant funds provided to charter schools increases with each successive grant.

As a result, the state does not have to appropriate per - pupil education funding for those students that receive scholarships.

Charter schools in Connecticut can't access funds through the School Readiness Program, the primary state - funded pre-k program, but if their charter includes pre-k, they receive state per - pupil funding for preschoolers just as they do for K - 12 students.

Parents could enroll their child at a private or religious school with a voucher worth up to 85 percent of the district's per - pupil funding (as much as $ 4,500).

As in Washington, D.C., where the federal government agreed to send $ 2 in aid to the public schools for every $ 1 it spent on the voucher program, Spence found it politically necessary to continue sending 15 to 25 percent of the per - pupil funding to the school districts for each student who chose to use a voucher.

While the plan called for a cut of 5.5 percent to education, dropping per - pupil funding by $ 550, funding limits could be offset at the district level by increased employee contributions to health care and pension programs, and by giving local school districts other tools such as wage freezes and adjustments in salary schedules.

PLCs are a part of students» home school districts and receive the same per - pupil funding as any other district school.

House Education Committee Chairman Dave Quall, D - Mount Vernon, who supports the charter law, said in the conference that schools gain and lose per - pupil funds every year as student populations fluctuate, and that the effect of larger demographic trends dwarfs the effect of charter school transfers.

Early Years funding is even more distorted that schools funding with areas like Camden getting 3x as much money per pupil as rural counties like Worcestershire or Solihull.

With all its successes, IDCS faces challenges as a charter school, namely in the areas of per - pupil funding and budget cuts that disproportionately impact charter schools.

Students in the wealthiest school districts in New York State enjoy the highest per - pupil funding — sometimes as high as $ 70,000 per pupil.

The per - pupil funding increases they've granted will help close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, and the money for more charters will act as a lifeline for the 65,000 Connecticut kids still stuck in failing public schools.

As well as large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsitAs well as large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsitas large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsitas deprivation, prior attainment and sparsity.

Some teaching unions fear that by removing the requirement for schools to consult with the local authority, which manages school places across an area, expansion in one school might hit others as pupils move elsewhere with little warning, taking «per pupil» funding with them.

The 2011 - 12 Budget Act also required school districts to assume the same level of per - pupil funding in 2011 - 12 as they received in 2010 - 11, essentially requiring COEs to ignore proposed trigger reductions when reviewing school district budgets, according to the report.

This almost doubles the # 10,000 to # 30,000 per pupil annual cost of a SEND pupil attending a state - funded school place, as estimated by SEND consultant Barney Angliss and Laxmi Patel, senior associate solicitor and head of education at law firm Boyes Turner, though both stress costs can be more if a pupil's needs are severe.

Widely viewed as the most sweeping school choice bill in the country, SB 302 then offers parents about $ 5,100 in per - pupil state funding to pay for tuition at private and religious schools.

Local and state revenues should be on the radar as well, since there has been an erosion of regular per - pupil funding nationally.

The new school grades come the same week as the Public School Forum's release of data that show vast differences in per pupil education funding between North Carolina's poor and wealthy school districts.