Sentences with phrase «average school expenditure»

In other words, these schools typically received 1 to 4 percent more than the district average, or $ 15,000 to $ 60,000 per school of 500 students in a district where the average school expenditure is $ 3,000 per pupil.

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Average public school expenditures per pupil for the same years were $ 5,900.

In the same period Roman Catholic theological schools reported average revenues of $ 9,137 and average expenditures of $ 8,613 per student; nondenominational and interdenominational schools reported average revenues of $ 5,664 and expenditures of $ 5,673 per student.

School districts must limit net cash resources to an amount that does not exceed three months of average expenditures or that is set by the state child nutrition agency.

Over the preceding twenty - year period, furniture expenditure averaged growth of 1.1 per cent each year (with high volatility), which is lower than inflation and lower than average school and resource budgets.

The latest NCEA data show the mean tuition and per - pupil cost for Catholic elementary schools to be $ 2,607 and $ 4,268, and for high schools, $ 5,870 and $ 7,200, all below average public - school per - pupil expenditures.

If you attend Incline High School in the upscale town of Incline Village, for instance, you in effect «receive» more than $ 13,248 in public funds — that is, the per - pupil expenditure in that community, which is far above the state average of $ 8,274 per pupil.

Spending: Connecticut spends well above the national average of $ 7,734 per pupil, ranking sixth among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with an expenditure of $ 9,188 in the 2001 - 02 school year.

We make this comparison by calculating the ratio of each school's per - pupil noncategorical expenditure to the district's average per - pupil noncategorical expenditure.

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.

School administration and other noninstructional activities account for about 17 percent of expenditures on average, with facilities expenses close behind at 15 percent.

Average per - pupil expenditure in K — 5 schools was $ 10,144 (compared to the $ 10,094 for grade 6 — 8 middle schools) and $ 9,680 in K — 6 schools (compared to $ 11,082 in grade 7 — 8 middle schools).

When people are asked to estimate per pupil spending in their local school districts, the average response in 2016 is $ 7,020, a little more than 50 percent of the actual per pupil expenditure of $ 12,440.

When we asked respondents to estimate per pupil spending in their local school district, the average response in 2016 was $ 7,020, little more than 50 % of the actual per pupil expenditure of $ 12,440, on average, in the districts in which respondents lived.

Country - level variables included in the analysis were per capita GDP, teacher salary levels, average expenditure per student, external exit exams, school autonomy in budget and staffing decisions, the share of privately operated schools, and the portion of government funding for schools.

Over the preceding decade before 2009/10, general school items and stationery expenditure averaged a growth of 2.4 per cent each year.

From 2009/10, average ICT budgets across all schools fell year on year until 2012/13, when secondary maintained schools indicated a 1.8 per cent rise in technology expenditure.

The previous highest estimate of technology expenditure was in 2008/9 when allocations averaged around # 14,000 in primary schools and # 65,400 in secondary schools.

In «Beating the Odds,» [a CGCS report that provides a city - by - city analysis of student performance and gaps in achievement] one of the findings is that the average per - pupil expenditure in the nation's largest urban school systems is now below the national average.

[28] During the 2015 — 2016 academic year, the average voucher value in Louisiana was $ 5,856, which was barely more than half the statewide average expenditure per pupil in the district schools.

During the 1990s, Emerald has not had significant grants from nongovernmental agencies that would make the average expenditure per pupil radically different than those of surrounding schools.

Average district per - pupil spending does not always capture staffing and funding inequities.14 Many districts do not consider actual teacher salaries when budgeting for and reporting each school's expenditures, and the highest - poverty schools are often staffed by less - experienced teachers who typically earn lower salaries.15 Because educator salaries are, by far, schools» largest budget item, schools serving the poorest children end up spending much less on what matters most for their students» learning.

For students without an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), scholarships may be worth up to $ 5,000, or 80 percent of the average per - pupil expenditure in the assigned public school district, whichever is greater.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

Overall, teacher salaries in U.S. secondary schools make up about 55 percent of total education expenditures, notably lower than the 63 percent average of OECD countries.

Another government study reports that urban school districts spend on average about 3.5 percent of their budget on facilities maintenance (compared to a national average expenditure of 9.4 percent).

Funded by appropriation, each student's voucher is funded at the statewide average of the per - pupil expenditures by all local education agencies for the current school year, up to but not exceeding the amount of tuition at the private school.

According to the U.S. Census, the average per - pupil expenditure for public schools in 1999 - 2000 was $ 6,835.

But when asked, the respondents estimated per - pupil expenditures in their local school district, they guessed, on average, just $ 6,307 — about half of what was actually spent.

In 1996 - 97, the average per - pupil expenditure in public schools was $ 5,923.

The most competitive colleges spend over $ 25,000 on instructional expenditure for each student yet the average low - income family pays less than $ 8,000 out of pocket for these schools.

In an attempt to create «parity» with traditional local schools, SBE is seeking to increase the per pupil grant to $ 10,306 — an amount equivalent to the average adjusted net current expenditure per pupil.

One 2011 study, «Educating Our Children: Catholic Schools Doing More with Less,» demonstrated that average SAT scores among Catholic school students were 23 % higher, while expenditure per student was nearly 25 % lower.

at approximately 64 percent of their district counterparts, averaging $ 7,131 per pupil compared to the average per pupil expenditure of $ 11,184 in traditional public schools.

This resource allows users to find out the per - pupil expenditure for school districts of interest, how those figures compare to school districts that have similar demographic characteristics, and how the district's per - pupil expenditure compares to state and national averages.

Nationwide, charter schools are funded at approximately 64 percent of their district counterparts, averaging $ 7,131 per pupil compared to the average per pupil expenditure of $ 11,184 in traditional public schools.

Like the Education Next survey, the Friedman survey asked respondents whether they thought public school spending was too high, about right, or too low, after first randomly assigning the respondents into two groups: one that first heard a prompt explaining that the average U.S. public school spends $ 10,658 per pupil (this is average operating expenditure per pupil), while the other group was not given any prompt.

According to the latest National Center for Education Statistics data, the average total per pupil expenditure in U.S. public schools was $ 12,136 in the 2009 - 10 school year.

Total expenditures for public education from all revenue sources in the United States as reported to the U.S. Department of Education were $ 606 billion for the 2012 — 13 school year, marking the first annual increase since the 2008 — 09 school year and the beginning of the Great Recession.2 The 2012 — 13 total expenditure equates to an average expenditure per student of $ 12,186 nationwide.

Statewide, the schools serving the highest concentration of low - income students receive only half of the state average per - pupil expenditure on teacher pensions.

The state Board of Education is calling on the legislature to increase charter schools» per - student expenditure from $ 9,300 to $ 10,300, the state average.

The school has a higher than district - average percentage of ELL students and economically disadvantaged students, and a per - pupil expenditure 14 % less than the district level.

California's public school system — whose per - pupil expenditures were already below the national average — is getting hit with some nasty cuts, thanks in large part to the state's $ 24 billion budget gap, says Brian Edwards, senior policy analyst at EdSource, a nonprofit education and research group in Mountain View, Calif..

Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which provides the major source of federal funding to help school districts fund educational services to students with disabilities, the federal share of funding that Congress initially promised in 1975 is up to 40 percent of the average per pupil expenditure.