Not exact matches
For example, New York, with the 10th largest
student population
enrolled at its four research - intensive public universities, has enjoyed a 72 % increase in
per -
student funding from the state.
In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199
per month for
students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will
fund a research study of its online
students and a comparative one of
students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and
student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the
funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.
State
funding for higher education has declined by roughly a quarter, to $ 7,152
per student enrolled in a public two - or four - year school in 2015, down from $ 9,489
per student in 1987.
Still, in the past three decades, average state and local
funding per enrolled student has dropped by one quarter, or $ 2,337 (see Figure 1).
State and local
funding for higher education has declined to $ 7,152
per student enrolled in a public two - or four - year school in 2015, down from $ 9,489
per student enrolled in 1987.
Through this plan, any
student who had been
enrolled in district schools for at least one year could apply for a voucher of approximately $ 4,600, equal to 75 percent of state
per - pupil
funding, to attend a «partner» private school, with the school district keeping the other 25 percent.
Second, public schools are eligible to earn
funding for a full day if they provide at least 43,200 minutes (4 hours
per day) of instructional time to
students enrolled in (1) a dropout recovery school; (2) an alternative education program; (3) a school program located at a day treatment facility, a residential treatment facility, psychiatric hospital, or medical hospital; (4) program offered at a correctional facility, or (5) a charter school providing adult high school diplomas or industry certification under Section 29.259.
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
Charter schools usually receive their public
funds through their state department of education on a
per student enrolled basis.
The amount of money schools receive for each
enrolled student will increase by 2.5 percent, boosting the district's base
per - pupil rate to $ 4,397 and more than two thirds of the 626 schools are receiving more
funds.