The state also released school spending information, showing
the average spending per pupil rose from $ 17,322 in 2010 - 11, to $ 18,047 in 2011 - 12.
At the time she noted that
the average spending per pupil in the U.S. was $ 7500 per year, while voucher costs averaged $ 2000.
The average per - pupil spending estimate from respondents to the 2008 Education Next / PEPG survey was $ 4,231, and the median response was just $ 2,000; but for these respondents, local
average spending per pupil at the time exceeded $ 10,000.
«Governor Cuomo, when he's speaking about education funding, he always talks about
the average spending per pupil in New York State being the highest of anywhere in the country.
Not exact matches
New York's public schools
spent $ 21,206
per pupil in the 2014 - 15 school year, topping all states and exceeding the national
average by 86 percent, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today.
«New York public schools now
spend more
per pupil than any other state and 87 percent above the national
average.»
New York schools already
spend more
per pupil than any state in the nation, at an
average of $ 19,818, almost double the national
average of $ 10,700.
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.
Public elementary and secondary school
spending in New York reached an all - time high of $ 20,600
per -
pupil in 2013 - 14 school year, topping all states and exceeding the $ 11,009
per -
pupil national
average by 87 percent, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.
[Cuomo said the latest lawsuit challenging the way New York allocates education dollars is flawed because the state
spends more money
per pupil — on
average — than any other state and doesn't get top results.]
«The facts are that education funding is at an all - time high, (we) have increased 32 percent during this administration and
per -
pupil spending is 87 percent above the national
average,» he added.
Cuomo recently released a report showing that New York City has 91 failing schools and Syracuse has 18 despite significant aid increases in recent years and
per pupil spending way above the national
average.
Each schools
spends about $ 19,000 annually
per pupil, almost double the national
average.
Cuomo during an appearance on «The Brian Lehrer Show» on WNYC public radio said the state
spends the most in the country on school funding and twice the national
average per pupil.
New York State currently
spends more
per pupil than any state in the nation, at an
average of $ 19,818, almost double the national
average of $ 10,700.
«New York today
spends more
per pupil than any other state in the nation — $ 19,552 — nearly double the national
average of $ 10,608
per pupil.
More to the point, says the Empire Center, «School
spending in New York [state] was driven primarily by instructional salaries and benefits — which, at $ 14,769
per pupil, were 114 percent above the national
average of $ 6,903, the census data show.»
Here's the latest news, courtesy of the US Census Bureau and the Empire Center for Public Policy's E.J. McMahon:
Per -
pupil public - school
spending in 2014 - 15 exceeded the national
average by a breathtaking 86 percent.
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.
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).
On
average, men thought that
per -
pupil spending was $ 1,483 higher and teacher salaries were $ 2,065 higher than did women.
We find that when a district increases
per -
pupil school
spending by $ 100 due to reforms,
spending on instruction increases by about $ 70,
spending on support services increases by roughly $ 40,
spending on capital increases by about $ 10, while there are reductions in other kinds of school
spending, on
average.
Taking into account the relationship between predicted and actual
spending increases, we find that increasing
per -
pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.3 years on
average among all children.
On
average, those who support increasing
spending on their local schools underestimated
per -
pupil spending by nearly $ 6,000 (see Figure 2).
We also eliminated 18 answers of more than $ 50,000 for
per -
pupil spending and 17 answers of more than $ 100,000 for
average teacher salaries.
Even homeowners, for example, were off by more than $ 5,000 on
average for
per -
pupil spending and by more than $ 11,000 for teacher salaries.
Since the War on Poverty, the
average gap in
per -
pupil spending between two states grew by 256 percent, an Education Week analysis finds.
The half of the sample who saw the prompt claimed, on
average, that their districts
spent $ 5,262, about $ 1,000 more than the others, but still only 54 percent of the actual
per -
pupil spending levels in their districts.
For the districts in which our sample members live,
per -
pupil spending in 2004 — 05 ranged from $ 5,644 to $ 24,939, with an
average of $ 10,377.
On
average, the estimates of
per -
pupil spending offered by homeowners were $ 427 higher than those of non-homeowners, a difference that is not statistically significant.
The revenue generated from that deduction is reallocated to districts with below -
average per -
pupil spending and property values.
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.
In Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston, the coefficients of variation were nearly always more than 0.15, meaning that one - third of the schools in these districts had
spending levels that deviated from their district's
average by 15 percent (or $ 225,000 for a school of 500 when
average spending is $ 3,000
per pupil).
Spending: Ohio
spent above the national
average on education in the 2001 - 02 school year, at $ 8,165
per pupil.
Almost 97 percent of students in the state are in districts that
spend at least the national
per -
pupil average.
Arizona has the second lowest
per pupil spending in the nation, and Mesquite has the lowest
per pupil funding in southern Arizona, with administrative costs at half the national
average.
In Washington State and New Mexico, districts with student enrollments between 100 and 1,200
spend $ 104 million and $ 69 million more, respectively, in total public funds than if they were
spending the statewide
average per pupil in these districts.
In states like California and Georgia, smaller districts receive a subsidy of 15 percent or more of the
average per -
pupil spending levels in their larger - district peers.
In Maine, the largest districts
spend, on
average, $ 8,033
per pupil compared to $ 11,027 for the smallest districts.
That figure still falls below the national
average, but almost 29 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts that
spend at least the national
average per pupil.
Urban school districts
spend significantly less
per pupil on their high - poverty schools than their low - poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school budgets that use
average - salary figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.
I discovered that Wellesley
spends no less than $ 15,383
per pupil, more than $ 2,000 more than the national
average.
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.
Just as
per pupil spending is much higher than people think, so is the
average teacher paid much better than members of the public estimate.
The U.S. Census Bureau calculates that the D.C. schools
spent an
average of $ 14,594
per pupil in 2007 — 08.
The high projection, which would produce $ 13,208 in
per -
pupil spending in 2020, is based on an
average growth rate of 2.45 percent, similar to the period from 1997 to 2004.
It is true that on
average, an additional $ 1000 in
per -
pupil spending is associated with an annual gain in achievement of one - tenth of 1 percent of a standard deviation.
Chicago's
per -
pupil spending in 2012 — 13 was $ 13,400, higher than the national
average and what is
spent in Los Angeles and Houston, for example, but far lower than what is
spent in New York City or Boston.
Specifically, the low projection, which would produce $ 9,519 in
per -
pupil spending in 2020, is based on an
average growth rate of 0.1 percent, similar to the period from 1991 to 1996.