Sentences with phrase «cost of public education»

Currently, the per - pupil cost of public education is close to $ 11,000 across the nation.

The ever - increasing cost of public education would engender less controversy if the product had improved apace.

Despite tremendous and persistent spending growth in the last half - century, the public vastly underestimates the true cost of public education.

Under the plan prepared by the Governor's Commission on Excellence in Education — a 30 - member panel of school - board members, teachers, school administrators, and representatives of higher education, business, and government selected by Gov. Robert Kerrey — the state would provide at least 50 percent of the total cost of public education and would develop a new state - aid distribution formula...

Political leaders and school choice advocates expected achievement would improve as students attended better schools, private schools would expand to meet growing demand, and the state would spend less because the cost of each tuition voucher would be lower than the full cost of a public education.

Recapture is the part of the funding system that re-allocates state resources that are concentrated in a small number of wealthy districts to help fund the overall cost of public education.

The unsustainable costs of public education might tempt taxpayers to favor increased public funding for charter schools.

• Over the last 10 years, when costs of public education skyrocketed, especially salaries and benefits, the schools were nonetheless generously supported by taxpayers, who believed that funds were critically needed to improve outcomes «for our children.

While vouchers appear to inject competition into the educational marketplace, virtual learning accomplishes the same while also addressing the escalating costs of public education.

This may be contributing to the public's vast underestimation of the true cost of public education.

The cost of public education is largely ignored by both the media and education policymakers.

Lawmakers Say State Formula Miscalculates Education Costs by $ 1 Billion (The Weymouth News) Professor Paul Reville discuses the state's long - term funding formula and what it is falling short on each year when it tries to project the cost of public education in Massachusetts.

Time for Americans to understand that value added analysis is not a reform of public education but a revolution that will allow us to significantly lessen the costs of public education while obtaining the greatest cost benefits from the dollars spent on education.

The BOK booklet says that «charter schools increase the cost of public education in Texas by over $ 600 million per year.»

It is about reducing the cost of public education.

While he proposed cutting money for public schools and shifting even more of the costs of public education onto the backs of middle income property taxpayers, Malloy wanted the legislature to give him even more money so that his corporate education reform industry associates could open up two more charter schools in Connecticut.