Sentences with phrase «between school expenditures»

In the summer of 2000, perfectly timed to shape the election debate over education reform, came a new RAND study that claimed to contradict the conventional research wisdom on the connection between school expenditures and class size on the one hand and student achievement on the other.

Not exact matches

«We need to strike a balance between our expenditures on instructional programs and our expenditures for hardening buildings against a disaster,» said Flatley, who serves as president of the Nassau County Council of School Superintendents.

Benjamin Lê Cook, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Harvard Medical School / Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues used nationally representative surveys of U.S. residents to compare trends in smoking rates between adults with and without mental illness and across multiple disorders (2004 - 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey [MEPS]-RRB- and compared rates of smoking cessation among adults with mental illness who did and did not receive mental health treatment (2009 - 2011 National Survey of Drug Use and Health [NSDUH]-RRB-.

Staffing costs can account for between 75 - 85 % of expenditure for a school, so it is vital that this is prioritised above all else and taken into careful consideration according to employee entitlements.

It is important to keep in mind, however, that the differences observed between all of these groups are dwarfed by the overall gap between the public's understanding of school expenditures and teacher salaries, and the truth.

At a time when the Government is working to reduce the current skills gap between the number of technology jobs and the people qualified to fill them, the research has revealed a significant increase in expenditure on technology, with schools currently realising an increase in their budgets of 6.6 per cent.

Monitoring expenditure Our annual «Resources in English Maintained Schools» research has shown that growth in expenditure on general items and stationery switches between small losses and gains each year to bring static spending over recent years.

The teachers» union, with a membership of 1.2 million, surveyed teacher salaries, district expenditures, and federal revenue in large school districts between the 1990 - 91 and 2000 - 01 school years.

Over the decade, we have witnessed — perhaps contributed to — the advance of school reform: the proliferation of school choice from vouchers to tax credits, charters, and online learning; the evolution of accountability's focus from schools to teachers; renewed attention to national standards; and a more realistic understanding of the uncertain connection between educational expenditures and school quality.

His sampling of 110 Texas school districts demonstrated a direct correlation between the amount of a district's taxable property and it level of per - pupil expenditures.

Each of appellees» possible theories of wealth discrimination is founded on the assumption that the quality of education varies directly with the amount of funds expended on it, and that, therefore, the difference in quality between two schools can be determined simplistically by looking at the difference in per - pupil expenditures.

To offer another example, much of the authors» early discussion of school spending assumes a strong correlation between expenditure levels and education outcomes, even though research shows that the two correlate poorly.

Relative to the amount that the Portland and Seattle school districts spend per student — approximately $ 11,000 and $ 12,000, respectively — the difference between the districts» PTA contributions is quite small, less than 2 percent of per - student district expenditures in 2014.

The report examines the distribution of state and local education expenditures at the school level, including comparisons between Title I and non-Title I schools and between higher - poverty and lower - poverty schools.

We do not wish to see school governors forced to prioritise between spending money on teachers, support staff or pupils (although clearly expenditure on pay is itself expenditure on pupils).

Using over 20 years of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data on revenue and expenditures for schools, the authors explore the relationship between substantive and sustained school finance reforms and improved student outcomes.

New Jersey school districts» funding and expenditure were cut sharply following the recession and, rather than recovering, the gap between prerecession expectation and the reality has grown steadily.

«That is $ 541 million over two years — more than half a billion dollars that the state would need to find in its budget for Connecticut's local public schools,» says Waxenberg, who questions why the state needs a new concept to compare expenditures between traditional schools and charter schools.