Sentences with phrase «educational spending per pupil»

CA teachers did support Prop 30, which helped bring California COL adjusted educational spending per pupil from last in the nation to almost last in the nation.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

A defining moment came in the 1970s, when the California Supreme Court in Serrano v. Priest decided that in order to ensure equal educational opportunity for all children, all school districts in California must spend equal amounts per pupil, instigating a wave of school - finance court cases across the country.

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.

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.

Students who are identified as having a disability are eligible to receive 90 percent of the per - pupil expenditure to spend on a variety of educational tools, including tuition and fees, textbooks, educational therapies, and tutoring.

For example, California, the country's largest and most financially distressed state, spends less than $ 14 out of its $ 8,955 per - pupil total educational outlay on statewide standardized testing.

However, as Johnson (2011) argues, desegregation actually increased school quality and per - pupil spending for black students, increasing black students» educational attainment with no effect on the attainment of white students.

Looking at the eight states with the highest median per pupil educational spending in the United States,

In other words, although the typical ESA student would receive only about one - fifth of the $ 18,216 that New Hampshire district schools spend per pupil, on average, the funding level would still put a wide variety of educational options within reach of the average Granite State family.

Current educational research informs us that poor teacher quality affects student learning more than class size, per - pupil spending or socioeconomic status.

SB 302, passed in the 2015 Nevada Legislature, offers parents about $ 5,100 in per - pupil state funds to spend on private school tuition, home - school expenses and other educational services if they pull their children out of a public school.

In addition to showing that American parents favor educational choice and are skeptical of Common Core, the new national survey on education policy from the Friedman Foundation demonstrates that Americans still vastly underestimate how much is spent per pupil at government - run schools.

But in educational attainment, students in Texas are, on average, one to two years ahead of California students of the same age, even though Texas has a lower per capita income and spends less per pupil than California does (Exhibit 3).

With per pupil spending at record highs, and educational attainment stagnant at best, our return on investment has never been worse.