The lowest - spending counties increased
their average spending per student by.8 percent ($ 5 per student).
The United States»
average spending per student was $ 12,450 in 2008 - 09.
If a school district fails to make adjustments in the face of rising charter school enrollment, and it keeps the same number of staff and facilities despite having fewer students, it will pay a double penalty: Because charter school tuition payments are pegged to a district's
average spending per student, a school district's charter payments rise when costs per student rise.
Not exact matches
The higher cost of fringe benefits is another reason why New York State tops the nation in education
spending — $ 19,552
per student — nearly double the $ 10,608 national
average.
New York
spends more on education
per student than any other state in the nation, roughly twice the national
average.
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.
Education
spending had peaked at an
average of $ 11,621
per student in 2008 — 09 before the deep global recession caused states to slash their
spending amid plummeting tax revenues.
The fact is that New York
spends more on education
per student than any other state in the union — an
average $ 18,126 each, according to the latest federal data.
YES — cut
spending — NY pays double
per capita to educate
students than the
average... one of the highest in the nation.
Nationwide, states
spent an
average of $ 6,903
per student on teacher salaries that year, compared to $ 14,769 in New York.
At the University of La Rochelle, where in the 1st year of the program
students were recruited without having an assignment to start with,
students spent an
average of 2 days
per week just trying to find a consulting opportunity, Canet says: «They found it difficult to manage their time between their thesis work and the search of company assignments.»
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).
Just 4 percent of
students in the state attend schools in districts that
spend at least the national
average per student.
Almost 97 percent of
students in the state are in districts that
spend at least the national
per - pupil
average.
Lovenheim and Willén found that
students who
spent all 12 years of elementary and secondary school in a state with a duty - to - bargain law earn an
average of $ 795 less
per year as adults than
students who were not exposed to collective bargaining laws during the same time period.
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.
The state
spent $ 6,380
per student in the 2001 - 02 school year, well below the national
average of $ 7,734.
Not far away, in another affluent, suburban school district in Montclair, New Jersey, minutes from an August meeting show the board of education approved
spending nearly $ 5 million this year for tuition payments — an
average of $ 63,000
per student — on «out - of - district placements» for 79
students with a variety of classifications, including learning disabilities and «other health impairment.»
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.
Courtenay Harris and Leon Straker's «Survey of physical ergonomics issues associated with school childrens» use of laptop computers» found that
students in schools with mandatory laptop programs
spent on
average more than three hours
per day on the computer.
Florida
spends below the national
average on
per -
student funding.
But the U.S. Census Bureau, in a survey of education finances released in July 2009, says Washington
spent $ 14,324
per public - school
student in the 2006 — 07 school year, or about $ 6,300 more than the national
average.
On
average,
students spend around 635 hours (primary) and 714 hours (secondary) in a classroom each year, and data we collected found that 84
per cent of sampled teachers agreed or strongly agreed that their moodstate impacts the behaviour of their
students.
Furthermore, this Harvard study clearly states «Rocketship
students spent an
average of 44 minutes
per week in the weeks they used DreamBox.»
The simple correlation between
spending per student and
average TIMSS test scores is 0.13 in primary school and 0.16 in middle school, on a scale where 1.0 denotes an absolute positive correlation between the two variables and 0 signals no correlation (see figure 2).
Summing the added cost of the separate programs suggested by Picus and Odden, I estimate that the overall plan, if fully applied, would increase
average spending in Washington by $ 1,760 to $ 2,760
per student, or 23 to 35 percent.
The
average state
spends $ 2,337 less today
per full - time - equivalent college
student than in 1987.
In 1987, states
spent $ 9,489
per student enrolled in a public two - or four - year school, on
average.
I find that state and local public - welfare
spending is easily the dominant factor driving budget decisions, with a $ 1 increase
per capita associated with a $ 2.44 decrease in
per -
student higher - education funding — enough to explain the entire
average national decline.
In 2009 — 10, they had, on
average, an additional $ 2,800
per student to
spend as they saw fit, compared to district schools: $ 9,300 in flexible dollars, or 65 percent of the total funds
per student.
The scholarships and tax credits could not exceed half of the state's
spending per student, which
averages around $ 5,000.
Changes in historical shares of Catholics in the population that are associated with a 10 - percentage - point increase in the private school share today lead to a $ 3,209 reduction in cumulative
spending per student, or 5.6 percent of the
average OECD
spending level of $ 56,947 (see Figure 3).
Of course, some teachers really do buy school supplies with their own money (which should make people wonder what kind of education system would make that necessary after
spending an
average of more than $ 12,000
per student each year).
According to the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, in four of the seven countries that outperform the United States in mathematics,
students spend less time in class
per week than U.S.
students do and also less than the international
average.
A 10 percent increase in private school enrollment also reduces the total educational
spending per student by over 5 percent of the OECD
average.
As such, a reasonable measure of the level of resources a
student is exposed to at the time of testing is the
average per - pupil
spending during the previous five years.
[4] Charter schools educated 44 percent of District
students in 2014 — 2015, and
spent an
average of $ 14,629
per pupil.
But SEED
spends $ 35,000
per student, as compared to
average current
spending for public schools of about one third that amount.
Average per -
student spending at each Renewal school is $ 14,632 this school year, up nearly 35 percent from $ 10,847 in 2013 - 2014 — and more than twice the cost of educating
students at the elite Stuyvesant and Brooklyn Tech high schools.
On
average,
students spent 7.5 hours
per day and 185 days
per year in school, compared to an
average of 6.9 hours
per day and 170 days
per year in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) during the period this analysis covers.
In Cleveland, Ohio, because of how the voucher program is funded, on
average,
students only receive $ 3,200
per year, 29 % of the
average amount
spent in Ohio.
If the size of our teacher force had merely kept pace with
student growth and we
spent the extra money attracting more - accomplished individuals to the field, today's
average teacher salary would be close to $ 100,000
per year.
[6] Based on their evidence, it is clear that finance reforms re-allocate significant amounts of money — on
average, reforms increased
spending by $ 1,225
per student a year in the lowest 20 percent of districts ranked by income, while increasing
spending by $ 527 in the highest 20 percent of districts ranked by income.
Oklahoma's Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarships for
Students with Disabilities (8) Voucher 80 % of
average per - pupil
spending in Oklahoma public schools $ 6,285
From 1996 to 2008,
spending per student, on
average, steadily climbed at least 1 percent a year, after adjusting for inflation, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Arizona's Lexie's Law for Disabled and Displaced
Students Tax Credit Scholarship Program (19) Tax - Credit Scholarship 62 % of
average per - pupil
spending in Arizona public schools $ 4,447
Mississippi's Nate Rogers Scholarship for
Students with Disabilities Program (29) Voucher 0 % of
average per - pupil
spending in Mississippi public schools $ 0 (no participants)
By contrast,
average per -
student spending in the state of Utah was just $ 6,441.
Mississippi Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for
Students with Dyslexia Program (22) Voucher 60 % of
average per - pupil
spending in Mississippi public schools $ 4,980