Not exact matches
In urban central cities,
funding levels
per student tend to be at least average, but
student needs (e.g. for special education for
students with learning disabilities and for
general support for very poor
students such as homeless
students) tend to be much greater.
Additionally, my school's budget was reduced by 3.26 percent (adding to a total of almost 14 percent in the past four years),
general per - pupil
funding was cut by 6 percent, and the city decided
students with special needs would receive 15 percent less
per - pupil
funding than before.
North Carolina, which already scrapes the bottom of the barrel in terms of
per pupil spending in
general at 48th in the nation, also provides an inadequate amount of
funding per special education
student.
Spending of Fees As a
general practice,
student fees are designed to offset the cost of programming
funded primarily by other
funding sources, including recurring
per - pupil revenue and philanthropy.
In keeping with their promises in last year's education reform law, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the
General Assembly committed to helping close the
per - pupil
funding gap that treats charter
students like second - class citizens, and also secured
funding for more charter schools.
In FY2016 charter schools received $ 6,669
per student from the State's
General Fund, representing about 85 % of their
funding.