Sentences with phrase «higher cost per student»

This tendency has been exacerbated by law school ranking methodologies that uncritically confuse higher cost per student with higher educational quality.

Critics of charter schools — which include many teachers who feel charter schools take money away from traditional schools — point out that the schools have generally not fared well in education ratings and have a higher cost per student than traditional schools.

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Although there are few statistics on average annual costs for books and supplies, some sources place it as high as $ 1,200 per term, according to an NBC News report.Understandingly, the high cost of textbooks has students wondering if they can apply their student loan money toward the cost of supplies.

The higher cost of fringe benefits is another reason why New York State tops the nation in education spending — $ 19,552 per student — nearly double the $ 10,608 national average.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

The number of U.S. medical students choosing careers in family practice plummeted by more than 50 percent in just the last eight years, but ironically, the more specialists there are in a state per capita, the lower the quality rank of medical care in that state and the higher the cost.

«It is true that the cost per student in a center is higher than in a project,» Emecz says.

«With our protocols, the cost per new genome falls below $ 4,000, making insect sequencing projects feasible for college and, in the foreseeable future, high school students,» said Nick Grishin of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Since cost per student (not price, which is passed on as tuition) is roughly the same at public and private colleges, she also proposes that a greater proportion of state money for higher education should go directly to students, giving them more flexibility.9

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.

Utah ranks last in the nation in per - pupil spending, and Innovations gets the same relative pittance as Salt Lake City's conventional high schools: $ 3,100 per student for operating costs and $ 3,200 for facilities - related costs.

(The program substantially enhances high school graduation rates and increases parental satisfaction at lower cost per student than education in the regular public schools of the District of Columbia [iv]-RRB-;

The $ 4.5 million donation will provide each high school junior with a program that usually costs $ 300 per student and which includes...

«A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student,» says Marc.

So long as the primary costs and method of delivery in higher education are based on labor, per - student appropriations will be the correct way to assess the magnitude of public support.

The per - meal rate for free lunches (currently, $ 2.24) can be higher than the actual cost, so there may be some advantage to schools with many poor students, although this improvement is usually offset by inefficiencies of older buildings with outdated kitchen equipment.

Every other elective activity in high school, including theater, band, newspaper, and art, also has higher costs per participating student than required courses, such as math and English.

The research literature generally finds that unionization is associated with higher per - pupil costs and lower student achievement, but those findings are not very large and are sometimes inconsistent.

Where schools pay a high per - pupil amount to offer some courses (for example, AP Spanish or remedial reading) to a small number of students, they may find lower - cost options exist via distance learning or contracted services.

A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student.

Note: Figures are per full - time equivalent student, in constant 2010 dollars adjusted by SHEEO Higher Education Cost Adjustment (HECA).

In District 3, spending on regular and honors courses was on par, while the cost per student was 28 percent higher for the International Baccalaureate courses.

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.

Furthermore, curriculum reform is typically inexpensive, and some of the highest - quality elementary school math curricula cost only around $ 36 per student.

Average per - student spending at each Renewal school is $ 14,632 this school year, up nearly 35 percent from $ 10,847 in 2013 - 2014 — and more than twice the cost of educating students at the elite Stuyvesant and Brooklyn Tech high schools.

In fact, during the 2017 - 2018 fiscal year, YEP's adult education program is expected to educate students at a cost of $ 209 per student for the entire year, compared to the $ 10,556 that public charter high schools would receive in MFP funds for educating those same young people.

The true nature of market forces shows up as smaller charters are muscled out by large networks, whose business models require that they expand enrollment, favor locations with more generous public per - pupil reimbursements, and reduce exposure to expenses associated with working in distressed areas, such as a greater concentration of high - need students and high insurance costs.

Along with per - student estimates on out - of - pocket costs (i.e., after financial aid) associated with remedial courses, the researchers conclude that first - year remedial college students and families spent $ 1.5 billion on tuition and living expenses, including $ 380 million in loans, for content and skills they should have learned in high school.

This means that states with more property wealth could look like they face higher education costs just because they spend more per student.

While serving at - risk students in one of the nation's highest - cost cities, charters get, on average, only two - thirds as much per - pupil money as district schools get.

Districts with higher per - pupil costs — those with many disadvantaged students, for example — don't necessarily get significantly more money.

His legislature had told him he needed to write new learning standards that ensured students were more prepared for higher education or careers — a process that could cost as much as $ 3 to $ 5 million per subject — but his budget had been slashed.

As part of their research, the authors also found that the cost for a 9 - to - 5 school day is somewhere around $ 4 to $ 5 per student per hour, though often much higher, depending on staffing and other factors.

8.4 % more students graduating from SSCs are enrolling in post-secondary programs as compared to students graduating from traditional large high schools, and per pupil costs at SSCs are 14 - 16 % less than large consolidated schools.

We estimated the per pupil costs for Alliance charter high school students to be $ 10,649 per year, compared to $ 15,372 per year for students at traditional public high schools within LAUSD, that is, we find a per pupil cost differential of 44 % in favor of LAUSD Alliance charter schools.

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Charter schools have a lower cost per pupil than traditional schools: Based on an analysis of relevant school costs and the number of enrolled high school students, the data shows the per pupil per pupil costs for Alliance charter high school students to be $ 10,649 per year, compared to $ 15,372 per year for students at traditional public high schools within LAUSD, that is, we find a per pupil cost differential of 44 % in favor of Alliance charter schools.

San Ramon Valley Unified earned a 923 API score in 2013, the highest of all schools surveyed, with average teacher compensation and total employee cost per student both below average at $ 88,638 and $ 6,763, respectively.

The small high schools managed to achieve these gains at a lower cost per graduate than the traditional schools, partly because more students graduated on time and did not need a costly fifth year of education.

In any case, the higher costs put a major kink in the business side of the Madison Prep proposal and also made it less palatable to the district, which wants to limit the amount of money per student it puts into Madison Prep beyond what it spends per student in the rest of the district.

Thirty - six states provide fewer cost - adjusted dollars to their highest - poverty districts than to their lowest - poverty districts, with the national funding gap at $ 1,348 per student.

The new law also ensures that state charter schools are eligible for RESA (Regional Education Service Agency) services and membership; provides an increase in capital funds for brick and mortar state charter schools located in the boundaries of a local school district where the capital revenue (per student) exceeds the state average total capital (per student); increases per - student capital funding for virtual schools to offset certain technology costs; and provides a Department of Education and State Charter School Commission grant program for replicating high performing charter schools.

The closure was due to declining enrollment, high per - student costs and high costs of safety upgrades.

High turnover is costly to both students and districts, reducing student achievement and increasing district costs for replacement, which can run as much as $ 20,000 per teacher.Carroll, T. G. (2007).

When revenues were adjusted only for regional cost differences and the additional cost of educating students with disabilities, New York showed the greatest disparity between revenues available per student in the highest - and lowest - poverty districts — $ 2,040.

It was found that the LAUSD loses $ 591 million per year to charter growth, and that as money leaves the district with students, the costs remain and even grow for the district, including charter oversight costs, infrastructure costs, the costs of educating the highest - needs students who are left behind by many charters, and more.

IT support for a 1:1 student - device ratio at all middle and high schools would cost about $ 772 million per year in addition to what is currently spent on IT support ($ 125 per pupil served).

In high school, except grade 12, per - student testing costs ranged from $ 400 to $ 600.

A superintendents» cost per student ranges from a low of $ 9 in Waterbury and $ 11 in Hartford to a high of $ 85 in Weston and $ 62 in Wilton.

Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School and Sturgis Charter Public School together educated 1,046 middle and high school students last year at a cost per pupil below the state - wide average and far below the cost of Cape area school districts.