Sentences with phrase «capita funding»

The cap, which was devised back in 1993 along with a flat per capita funding rate, was put in place in part to deter districts from over identifying the number of students qualifying for special needs.

Harris said the «lumpy» nature of local grant funding drove swings in per capita funding, adding: «Moving a large local project from one LEP to another moves the fund / population significantly.»

Not exact matches

Cuts to the highest per - capita spending in Canada will doubtless be part of the budget Premier Alison Redford unveils on March 7, but a shortfall on the revenue side, namely oil and gas royalties, has prominent Albertans calling for a more stable source of funding: a provincial sales tax.

Ontario has the lowest per - capita program spending among provinces and the lowest total government revenue per person among all Canadian provinces, including funding from federal transfers.

The International Monetary Fund reckons that Canada's gross domestic product moved ahead of the US by about $ 3,000 on a per - capita basis last year.

The budget also proposes block granting Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at pre-ACA levels along with a state option of per - capita cap funding.

In 37 states, pension contributions plus state - funded Medicaid grew by more than state and local government tax revenue between 2007 and 2014, in real per - capita terms.

The US spends just $.46 per capita to fund artists, one of the lowest amounts in the developed world.

According to the World Refugee Survey 1988, it ranks only ninth in per capita giving among nations contributing to international refugee funds.

Governor Cuomo also called on Congress to stop the so - called Graham - Cassidy bill, Congress's latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act.The bill uses block grants and per capita spending caps to dramatically cut Medicaid funding for New York.

Mayor Richards says Rochester has the lowest per capita rate of any upstate city for the state's aid to municipalities fund, which results in the city paying more for its schools than Buffalo, even though there are fewer students.

Republicans say this would have led to closer oversight and local autonomy over those funds, and Stefanik's spokesman said the per capita allotment would have represented «a better deal» for New York.

«Our AIM funding per capita — that's aid that comes to municipalities — is a quarter of what Buffalo and Rochester receive, or Syracuse receives.

New York City is the only region to have been passed over for state bonus funding for four consecutive years, resulting in a per capita state funding disparity of more than 30:1.

ALBANY — Residents in some parts of upstate New York got roughly 30 times as much money per capita in the latest round of state funding awards than residents of New York City.

In fact the Bronx received less than 15 dollars in average per capita in discretionary funds compared to downtown Manhattan that received over hundreds of dollars in average per capita.

Such measures as citation impact, levels of funding, and awards, when applied on a per capita basis, he argues, would provide a more accurate picture of the current research landscape.

In a new analysis, Douglas Webber of Temple University finds that increased state for public - welfare programs — in particular, Medicaid — is the single biggest contributor to the decline in higher - education funding, with a $ 1 increase in per capita public - welfare spending associated with a $ 2.44 decrease in per - student higher - education funding.

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.

Spending on health and on police and fire protection accounts for between zero and 20 percent of the decline in higher - education funding, depending on whether spending is measured on an overall or per - capita basis.

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.

For example, looking at spending per capita within each category rather than total spending reveals that a $ 1 increase in per - capita public welfare spending is associated with as much as a $ 2.44 decrease in per - student higher - education funding.

Schools in Louisiana accepting large numbers of vouchers, which are worth up to the equivalent of the state's per capita public school funding, must admit all students assigned to their schools.

Under the funding formula, school funding will be directed by Test 2, which provides what schools got last year with adjustments for attendance and the growth in per capita personal income, which is expected to remain steady next year at 4 percent.

The School Funding Project - 10th grade Alegbra / Linear Programming unit where students design two small schools and use a Linear Programming model to determine what is the best / most fair method for calculating their per - capita budgets in order to maximize Graduation Rates.

Funding was also relatively stable, growing from $ 2 billion to $ 2.3 billion, and per - capita spending hovered around $ 5,000 per child in current dollars.

Enrollment more than doubled to just over 900,000 children, and funding climbed even more steeply; by 2000, total appropriations had tripled to just under $ 7 billion per year, and per - capita expenditures increased to $ 8,000 per child.

While its true the voucher schools (private, parochial or charter) operate under different rules they also work under a drastically different funding structure (40 % of the Public School per capita) to offset the claims of» skimming the good ones».

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Perhaps a third of the funds generated could be rebated evenly per capita with the rest used to reduce the national debt.

This amount will be insignificant to the rich, and much smaller than their per capita contribution to the fund, but will be enough to lift all the world's poor out of poverty.

We propose basing it on emissions per capita because that will turn Green - Fund payments into an incentive for all countries to reduce their emissions (Cramton and Stoft, 2010).

So far, the U.S. has made the single biggest contribution to the fund, but, on a per capita basis, it ranks in the middle of the pack, at $ 9.30 per citizen.

If the United States is a very large emitter of gigs compared to most other nations in terms of historical and per capita emissions, why doesn't the United States have an ethical duty to fund reasonable climate change adaptation measures in and losses and damages of poor developing countries that have done little or nothing to cause human - induced warming.

Oh, and the tax would go into a fund that's disbursed on a per - capita basis once per year.

A study comparing fiscal provisions for urban climate and disaster resilience across ten cities in India notes that the per capita capital expenditure in sectors closely linked to disaster resilience is insufficient compared to other areas of funding.

TreeHugger: With entire economies based on selling oil and natural gas to fund massive, rapid growth and a per capita ecological footprint larger than the United States, the United Arab Emirates is currently one of the most unsustainable places in the world.

«Access to justice in B.C. has deteriorated to the point that our province is an embarrassing 10th out of 13 provinces and territories on legal aid funding spending per capita.»

Legal aid funding in Ontario — the province that spends the most on it per capita — fell by nearly 10 per cent from 1996 to 2006.

New Zealand's government spent three times as much, per capita, funding legal aid in civil matters; the Netherlands, four times as much; and England, with a per capita outlay of $ 26, exceeded U. S. spending more than elevenfold.3

A per capita distribution will divide funds between all living members in each designated «branch».

Under the block grant structure, there is no guaranteed benefit amount for individual consumers, but rather a set per capita amount of funding given to each state.

According to research funded by The SCAN Foundation, per - capita Medicare costs for frail seniors in need of assistance with daily activities is lower for those in nursing homes and seniors housing than for those living at home.

Even though per capita government spending is tame compared with other states — 7th lowest in the country — Texas and its localities must still find a way to fund government obligations.