Sentences with phrase «educational spending by»

It is instructive to note that in the last eight years New York State has increased educational spending by 102 percent in real terms, i.e., after accounting for inflation.

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By day five, I was spent, as were the helpful individuals and educational resources I'd found online.

Before committing your money to investments, spend a lot of time reading and learning about investing and stock picking by visiting online financial resources and reading books, periodicals and other educational material.

After several years spent earning a degree in such contexts one understandably comes to yearn for an educational experience in a more intimate community, not just advanced seminar by advanced seminar, but as a total academic environment.

I learned this by spending a morning at the touristy, campy and educational Shields Date Garden.

I'm a doctoral candidate in educational policy — but consider myself an educational sociologist — and spend my days thinking about how personal lives, opportunities, and choices are often constrained by inequalities and cultural forces.

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

The budget requires districts located in cities with populations of more than one million to submit a detailed, school - by - school accounting of how they spent state educational funds.

Participants spend days on full - time digs, and at night there are educational programs, including lectures by paleontologists and geologists at a local ranch.

In addition, New Hampshire's scholarship tax - credit law includes an ESA - style provision that allows homeschoolers to spend scholarship funds on a variety of educational products and services similar to those permitted by the Arizona and Florida ESA laws.

By clearing technical details off the deck, we spent more time engaged in nobler discussions about educational philosophy, social - emotional learning, and long - term goals.

Our key finding is that increased per - pupil spending, induced by court - ordered SFRs, increased high school graduation rates, educational attainment, earnings, and family incomes for children who attended school after these reforms were implemented in affected districts.

Taking into account the relationship between predicted and actual spending increases, we find that increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.3 years on average among all children.

Childcare and Education Minister Sam Gyimah said: «School business management plays a vital role in helping us achieve our aim of educational excellence everywhere, by enabling schools to be more innovative and autonomous, and by making sure money is spent as efficiently as possible.

Investigating the causal effect of school spending increases generated by the passage of SFRs, we conclude that increasing per - pupil spending yields large improvements in educational attainment, wages, and family income, and reductions in the annual incidence of adult poverty for children from low - income families.

We address this limitation by focusing on the effect of school spending on such long - run outcomes as educational attainment and earnings rather than on test scores.

For children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.5 years.

In contrast, for nonpoor children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending throughout the school - age years increases educational attainment by less than 0.1 years, and this estimate is not statistically significant.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

The week was highlighted by a global student - teacher - parent - leader panel conversation as representatives from the American and Finnish educational systems spent an hour discussing the core beliefs behind best practice teaching, learning and leading.

Most of the proposals to lift student achievement offered by Ladd and her Broader, Bolder colleagues ignore the many hours children spend at school, proposing instead a potpourri of noneducational services; those services that do have an educational component are to be offered either to preschoolers or to students during their summer vacation or after school.

ESSA wisely eliminates cost - by - cost testing for SNS, a practice which discouraged schools from spending Title I funds on comprehensive services and perversely encouraged spending on add - ons (like pulling students out of academic classes to work with paraprofessionals) that met compliance standards but were not necessarily helpful in improving educational outcomes for low - income students.

As Luton Sixth Form College demonstrates, with the right tools, educational institutions can ensure the time spent by the IT staff is on continual improvement and innovation, rather than crisis management.

The independent data, which surveyed 198 schools across the UK on their spending intention during the current academic year, has revealed that overall spending on educational furniture will reduce by # 3.3 m in 2016/17 in a market that is usually worth # 200m annually.

After spending a semester on interviews, research, and documentation, the group will explain what they discovered about the future of East New York by creating an educational art project, which they'll share with the community at large through a public presentation.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is also expected to announce four other measures concerning educational policy, including the protection of spending per - pupil, a guarantee ensuring all teachers in state - funded schools will be qualified by September 2016, the establishing of a Royal College of Teachers and a National Leadership Institute to promote high quality leadership in schools in deprived areas.

And it produces these benefits while decreasing the total resources devoted to education, as measured by cumulative educational spending per pupil.»

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.

A 10 percent increase in private school enrollment also reduces the total educational spending per student by over 5 percent of the OECD average.

As the education sector is gathering at the Bett Show on Wednesday to explore the latest trends in educational technology, a new report released on Monday by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) has found that school spending on ICT is set to rise for the first time in three years.

Through the Early Learning Study at Harvard, Professors Lesaux and Jones aim to update the science around child care by examining the links between children's development and the characteristics of the educational and care settings where they spend their formative years.

It may well be the case that these costs are justified by the achievement gains of having students spend more time in the school, but in the current fiscal environment substantial increases in educational spending are unlikely to be forthcoming.

And for the students who identify with targeted groups, it can be «dehumanizing not to have their experiences addressed in schools and by their teachers who they spend so much time with,» says former teacher and school administrator Aaliyah El - Amin, now a lecturer and researcher on educational justice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Every day I read, share and learn from articles, blogs, and op - eds written by very sharp, intelligent and caring people who spend their days fighting for educational equity, school choice and better quality schools.

With the philanthropic money — not counting community partnerships that provide educational and facilities improvements — Partnership schools spend only about $ 650 more per student per year than the average district student, for whom about $ 11,000 is budgeted by the state.

By empowering families to spend funds on a variety of educational products and services or to save for future educational expenses, ESAs incentivize users to maximize both value and efficiency and foster an unbundling of educational services.

The Louisiana Supreme Court held that spending tax funds for secular educational services from teachers employed by private schools violated three provisions of the Louisiana Constitution: the prohibition against the enactment of any law respecting an establishment of religion and two Blaine Amendments subsequently repealed in 1973.

As shown in the table, simply increasing educational spending per pupil by $ 11,000 would be estimated to increase the present value of future earnings per student by a little more than half that spending increase.

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.

The $ 90.3 million that had previously been directed to the two grant programs was swallowed up by the LCFF, which in its first year gave local educational agencies a total of $ 4.5 billion in additional funding as well greater authority over how the dollars are spent.

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

Launched by Princeton Review Founder John Katzman, Noodle provides educational resources to parents and teachers, and it spent the last year examining 140,000 schools to come up with this list.

A letter sent late last month to the SBE and signed by 30 members of the Legislature, also called on board members to enact spending regulations that require districts to show how extra funds for English language learners, foster youth and low - income students are being used to supplement their educational services.

The new legislation, introduced by Republican Sen. Mark Wyland of Escondido but likely to enjoy the support of many Democrats, could signal a showdown with Gov. Jerry Brown, who vetoed similar legislation last year because it infringed on a key premise of his Local Control Funding Formula — allowing local educational agencies the bulk of authority over school spending decisions.

You can learn more about it by spending a few minutes with any introductory educational measurement textbook.

Annual global spending on educational technology in schools has been valued at # 17.5 bn, by technology analysts Gartner.

But here's the thing: by the closing chapters of his breezy, 478 - page tome, Brill sounds far less like an uncritical fan of charter school expansion, Teach for America (TFA) and unionbusting and far more like, well, a guy who has spent several years immersed in one of the thorniest policy conversations in America, thinking about a problem — educational inequality — that defies finger - pointing and simple solutions.

With their basic educational mission confronted by ongoing funding threats, that have forced them to trim the traditional school year to save money, few school administrators and governing boards feel they can justifiably boost summer spending.

Most of them did this, however, by compensation strategies, such as memorizing, repeating, spending extended periods of time attempting to master large amounts of material, and receiving extensive help from friends and siblings, rather than by mastering the requirements of successful learning in a formal educational setting.

Illinois also needs to embrace educational innovations that will spend classroom dollars more efficiently while fostering an environment that will encourage academic achievement by students.