Sentences with phrase «dollars spent per pupil»

Prior to 1980, school quality was measured mainly by inputs — indicators such as the number of books in the school library, the percentage of teachers with master's degrees, and dollars spent per pupil.

Not exact matches

[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.]

Legislative leaders initially touted a $ 101 dollar increase in per - pupil spending, calling it «unprecedented.»

Additional charts illustrate changes in state per - pupil spending from 1969 - 70 to 2009 - 10 in inflation - adjusted dollars.

Wyoming plaintiffs have returned to court six times and have so far doubled Wyoming's per - pupil spending, elevating it from $ 5,971 in 1996 — 97 to an estimated $ 12,422 for 2006 — 07 Beginning teacher salaries, for those with master's degrees, rose in constant dollars from $ 24,402 in 1997 to $ 32,451 in 2004, a 33 percent increase.

After three generations of steady growth in per pupil spending, education is going to have to face its day of reckoning and schools are going to have to start spending dollars smarter.

Between 1960 and 1975, the amount (in inflation - adjusted dollars) spent nationwide on K — 12 education per pupil nearly doubled, rising from $ 3,300 to just short of $ 6,100.

In 2003 the Boston school district spent $ 10,057 per pupil, similar to what Weston spent in 1999 in real dollars.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

This year brought several changes to public schools in California, beginning with a robust economy that added billions of dollars to boost K - 12 per - pupil spending.

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The statute allows parents to apply nearly every dollar the state typically spends per pupil, almost $ 6,000 in most areas, to virtual charter schools, as long as they are authorized by the state.

Breaking Down School Budgets: Following the Dollars into the Classroom This analysis by Marguerite Roza published by Education Next in summer 2009 examines ways in which per - pupil spending in high schools varies by subject and course level, and demonstrates how isolating spending on discrete services can 1) identify the relationships...

When federal stimulus dollars were added, overall real spending per pupil still declined in 23 states.

Between 1960 and 1995, per - pupil spending in the United States (in constant 1996 — 97 dollars) grew dramatically, from $ 2,122 to $ 6,434, a threefold increase.

Given that Michigan spends over $ 10,000 per pupil each year, if even two - third of those students were retained, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

For each elementary student enrolled, a District charter school receives $ 11,879 in tax dollars, including $ 8,770 to match per - pupil academic spending in the regular public schools and a $ 3,109 facility allotment to help pay for buildings.

If we compare this year's numbers to three years ago, we see an enrollment increase of 0.5 percent, a teacher reduction of 0.4 percent, and an increase in per - pupil spending of 6 percent (1.5 % in constant dollars).

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«Our per - pupil spending is up 10 percent in the state of Arizona, and the amount of dollars available for teacher pay — that's both raises and new teachers — is plus - 9 percent since 2015.»

Evidence offered: «Per - pupil spending in IPS has grown 61 percent in inflation - adjusted dollars since 1988.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

To put this into perspective, just 10 years ago we spent $ 9,482 per pupil (in constant dollars).

North Carolina had made significant gains in per pupil spending levels up until 2010, thanks in part to federal stimulus dollars that were designed to help mitigate the negative fiscal impact of the Great Recession.

Next, the voucher amount may or may not equal the actual per pupil dollars spent on the child — creating a financial burden for the receiving district as well as for the district that loses the student.

We computed real - dollar school budgets, based on actual staff salaries, and found huge within - district variations in per pupil spending.

In Mississippi, average per pupil spending in 2013 was $ 8,932, which includes local, state, and federal dollars.

The United States spends more per pupil on public education than any other country in the world, about one trillion dollars annually, but it is at the bottom of the class.

After three generations of steady growth in per - pupil spending, education was going to have to face its day of reckoning, and schools were going to have to start spending dollars smarter.

Schools and districts should be expected to report per - pupil spending (something made much easier when dollars follow the child), both with and without capital costs.

Starving the schools 250 — decline, in dollars, in per - student K — 12 funding in North Carolina for fiscal year 2015 from 2014 («Most states still funding schools less than before the recession,» Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Oct. 16, 2014) 14.5 — percentage reduction in per - pupil spending in...

Public charter school students in New York currently receive no per pupil facilities aid, can not provide preschool programs, and on average receive about 75 cents on the dollar when compared to traditional school district spending.

Not $ 1 per student, a small figure in itself when per - pupil spending is in the thousands, but a single dollar overall.

In New York City, where 38 % of charters are in private space, schools spend on average $ 2,350 per pupil (17 % of total) on their buildings — dollars that would otherwise pay for teachers, guidance counselors and instructional materials, among other things.

-- K - 12 spending per pupil in constant dollars has never been higher than it is today.

The bill actually cut overall per - pupil spending and shifted hundreds of millions of dollars from traditional public schools — which educate almost 3 million students — to charter schools — which educate about 300,000.