Sentences with phrase «dollars spent per student»

Notable Quotable: «When districts pay for teachers using average salaries, it creates a loophole that allows for vast differences in dollars spent per student at the school level.

First, I analyze the effects of institution - level mechanisms on BA completion, including college characteristics (e.g., dollars spent per student) and students» pathways within individual colleges (e.g., major field of study).

Since fully 35 percent of the nation's students of color attend school in either California or Texas, examining the relationship between the percent of students of color and dollars spent per student can bring the problem into sharper focus.

The Productivity Commission is correct that dollars spent per student increased by 14 % in real terms over the last decade.

Not exact matches

That double whammy — more students and fewer state dollars — has accelerated the spending decline on a per - capita basis.

Lortie - Forgues, Tian and Siegler (2015) repeated the question with students of the same age in 2014 — 27 per cent got it right, leading the researchers to comment: «Thus, after more than three decades, numerous rounds of education reforms, hundreds if not thousands of research studies on mathematics teaching and learning, and billions of dollars spent to effect educational change, little improvement was evident in students» understanding of fraction arithmetic.»

If, as in the example above, state and local funds are to support one teacher per 25 students in grades K - 3, the auditor would check that any Title I funds spent on K - 3 teachers line up dollar for dollar with reductions below that baseline class size in Title I schools.

TIMSS does not include data on spending, so current national public spending per student in secondary education in international dollars was calculated on the basis of UNESCO and World Bank data.

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.

When they do so, schools are more responsive to their demands and they also operate more efficiently — delivering higher student performance per dollar spent.

It is difficult to nail down these type of relationships because, like CBAs, many things differ from one district to the next, but new evidence by Katharine and colleagues shows that districts with more restrictive CBAs are less efficient (as defined by returns to student achievement per dollar spent).

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.

While the United States spends abundantly on elementary and secondary schoolchildren ($ 12,401 per student per year in 2013 — 14 dollars), it devotes dramatically less than other wealthy countries to children in their first few years of life.

In Missouri, per - student spending in inflation - adjusted dollars increased 33 percent from 1992 to 2014.

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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.

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While inflation - adjusted public spending per student increased 27 percent between 1992 and 2014, an EdChoice study found, teacher wages actually fell an average of 2 percent during that time (in real dollars).

In 23 states, high - poverty districts spend fewer dollars per student than low - poverty districts.

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

But Morton said the amount of state spending per student can vary by thousands of dollars a year based on where they live, and which school they attend, not on their needs.

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.

Vouchers» dollar amounts are significantly lower than the amounts public schools spend per - student and yet voucher programs often achieve better results.

At Winburn Middle, we spend over a thousand dollars less per student funding that the district average.

However, there are educational policies that improve student achievement and adult outcomes by far larger amounts per dollar spent than across - the - board spending increases.

But other educational interventions also have been shown to increase student achievement by a large amount per dollar spent.

Annual per student spending in constant 2011 - 2012 dollars rose from $ 3,648 in 1960 to $ 9,941 in 1995.

The study, which we co-authored, analyzed the public schools in Milwaukee that produced the best student outcomes per tax dollars spent.

Meriden spends $ 14,018 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 41 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 5,423 per student).

Stamford spends $ 18,570 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 86 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 14,919 per student).

New Britain spends $ 13,391 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 32 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 4,002 per student).

Windham spends $ 18,372 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 27 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 6,452 per student).

New London spends $ 16,753 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 30 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 4,635 per student).

New Haven spends $ 18,091 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 28 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 4,213 per student).

Norwich spends $ 16,622 per student and its taxpayers pay nearly 43 cents of every dollar in the city's education budget (amounting to $ 6,747 per student).

In raw dollars he proposed spending up to $ 1,500 per student per year, which, adjusted for inflation, translates to about $ 10,000 today.

«And the US as a whole does spend more per student on average than other OECD countries; however, the US spends far less on medical care (in terms of government dollars), parental leave, and the social services and supports.

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.

Like the student card we'll discuss below, this card earns 1.5 points per dollar spent, which translates back to a 1.5 % rewards rate.

This card is great for students with an active nightlife: it gives you 2 points per dollar spent on dining and entertainment and 1 point per dollar on everything else.

Combining this with a high rewards rate of 1.5 points per every dollar spent, the Bank of America Travel Rewards card offers the highest rewards value out of any student card.

California is spending many millions of dollars to reduce class size in schools to 20 students per class.

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.