Sentences with phrase «increase per pupil»

Despite steps to increase per pupil spending, decrease student - teacher ratios, and recruit a better - prepared teaching force, student test scores have improved very slowly over the past 35 years.

In an attempt to create «parity» with traditional local schools, SBE is seeking to increase the per pupil grant to $ 10,306 — an amount equivalent to the average adjusted net current expenditure per pupil.

Public schools would receive a $ 200 increase per pupil in each of the two years, but that would be outside the school funding formula, only compounding the inequities between wealthy and poor districts.

In districts with low enrollment, fixed costs are spread across fewer pupils, and class sizes in required courses may be so small as to further increase per pupil costs.

In addition, it imposes per pupil revenue limits on school districts which allow higher spending districts to increase per pupil spending by a greater amount than lower spending districts.

Delete $ 100 increase per pupil in sparsity aid, and instead provide $ 100 per pupil for districts with between 745 - 1,000 students.

Cuomo's $ 142 billion spending plan would increase per pupil tuition assistance to charters from $ 425 per pupil to $ 575 per pupil at the start of the 2016 - 17 school year.

«The next Labour government will support our schools by giving them the resources they need, increasing per pupil funding in real terms and providing ring - fenced funding to end the pay cap and give our teachers the pay rise they deserve,» Rayner said today.

The governor is still expressing confidence that his school funding plan will clear the Legislature, increasing per pupil funding for public schools — but outside of the revenue caps and less than what voucher students will receive.

Four other states — Indiana, Minnesota, Nevada, and Pennsylvania — have increased per pupil spending during the eight year period under consideration.

Lowers the ECS foundation amount from $ 11,525 to $ 8,999 for FY 18 and thereafter, but increases per pupil funding for charter schools from $ 11,000 to $ 11,500.

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The Lower Hudson Valley has the lowest growth, increasing $ 13, or 0.6 percent, per pupil.

The proportion of pupils studying RE at GCSE has increased by almost 50 per cent in the last 15 years.

He was rewarded with extra funding to cut class sizes, and subsequently there has since 1997 been a massive increase in literacy and numeracy, and there are 42,000 more teachers than in 1997, with doubled spending per pupil in frontline [clarification needed] schools (and over 100,000 teaching assistants) through to 2010.

The Senate proposal would also bolster charter schools, with provisions to increase per - pupil tuition that public schools must pay to charters, guarantee that charter schools won't have to pay rent to use public school buildings, and allow charter schools to offer pre-kindergarten.

Amongst other achievements, the Welsh Liberal Democrats secured an increase in the Pupil Premium so every school receives # 1,150 per pupil on free school meals, a Young Persons» Bus Pass, and 5,000 new apprenticesPupil Premium so every school receives # 1,150 per pupil on free school meals, a Young Persons» Bus Pass, and 5,000 new apprenticespupil on free school meals, a Young Persons» Bus Pass, and 5,000 new apprenticeships.

In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».

In his January State of the State address, Cuomo called for increasing per - pupil state aid to charters, which amounts to roughly $ 27 million.

Charters have been calling for increased funding for years, including to up the per - pupil levels to match traditional public schools.

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 thinktank calculates that the reality of the government's small real terms increase in schools spending coupled with rising classroom numbers meant that spending per pupil would fall by 2.25 % over the next four years.

«The facts are that education funding is at an all - time high, (we) have increased 32 percent during this administration and per - pupil spending is 87 percent above the national average,» he added.

A spokesman for Governor Cuomo says New York «spends three times as much per pupil in high needs districts than it does on low needs districts, and that funding has only increased over the past four years».

Legislative leaders initially touted a $ 101 dollar increase in per - pupil spending, calling it «unprecedented.»

During the upcoming session, charter groups will focus on boosting facilities funding and the state's per - pupil funding formula after notching a modest victory with a 50 - school increase in the statewide charter cap last year.

Cuomo recently released a report showing that New York City has 91 failing schools and Syracuse has 18 despite significant aid increases in recent years and per pupil spending way above the national average.

ALBANY — A deal that would link future increases in per - pupil charter school aid to public school funding could be breaking the logjam around the state's $ 150 - plus billion budget.

However, there would be an increase in supplemental per - pupil aid from $ 500 to $ 1,450.

The increase in per pupil funding was welcomed by MPs - Conservative former minister Anna Soubry said Ms Greening should be awarded a «huge gold star» - but those on the opposition benches pressed the education secretary on where the additional money was coming from.

«He also announced that schools spending will be allocated in a «fairer way» so that the lowest funded local authorities will receive an increase in their per pupil funding through a new national funding formula.

A spokesman for Cuomo says New York «spends three times as much per pupil in high needs districts than it does on low needs districts, and that funding has only increased over the past four years.»

The party has also pledged to increase the Early Years Pupil Premium to reach # 1000 per child on free school meals.

Current statute is written so that charter schools will get a $ 1,500 increase in funding per pupil if the Legislature doesn't act by June.

The $ 430 - per - pupil aid to charter schools is aimed at keeping pace with increases for traditional public schools, Cuomo said Thursday night in his budget briefing.

David Cameron ruled out a real - terms increase in school spending, but promised to protect per - pupil spending.

About a 30 % increase in average expenditure per pupil (over four years, between age seven and 11) is expected to produce an increase in achievement of a level equivalent to 25 - 30 points on the PISA scale.

Now a primary school with fewer than 60 per cent of pupils achieving the basic standard of level 4 in reading, writing and maths (that increases to 65 per cent next year), and fewer pupils than average making the expected levels of progress between KS1 and KS2 will be taken over.

In 18 of them, the increase in the size of the pupils was pronounced — an average change of 23 per cent after half an hour — compared with a «minimal» 5 per cent in a group of 32 healthy elderly people.

As a result, even as net district school funding decreases due to charter enrollment, total per - pupil funding effectively increases.

Increased Engagement It is unsurprising that 82 per cent of the teachers who contributed to the research said that their pupils have an interest in using tablets.

According to the models comparing high - scoring F schools with low - scoring D schools, to achieve the same 5 - point gain in math that the threat of vouchers accomplished, Florida schools would need to increase per - pupil spending by $ 3,484 at previously failing schools.

We asked half of our sample whether they would like to see funding for schools in their district increase, decrease, or remain the same, while we told the other half the current per - pupil spending in their district before we asked that question.

Now, one can't conclude that the aggregate per - pupil spending increase necessarily presents a net - benefit to traditional district schools.

To realize the same gain as the A-Plus program accomplished in reading, Florida schools would need to spend $ 888 more per pupil, more than a 15 percent increase in per - pupil spending.

But when they were given the real numbers, only 42.9 percent of respondents supported raising per - pupil spending, and only 36.7 percent supported an increase in teacher salaries.

To produce the same gain in writing scores, per - pupil spending would have to be increased by $ 2,805, more than a 50 percent increase.

In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500 respondents who do not run any form of home access programme said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst schools already running a programme.

The city is set to see a 13 per cent increase in its primary and secondary population, with 22,957 extra pupils by 2020, the largest numerical increase in the country.

Additionally, a study from the National Literacy Trust on the effects of ebooks on reading progress suggested that boys were keener to read ebooks than their paper counterparts, with ebooks facilitating a 25 per cent rise in the number of pupils who read daily and a 22 per cent increase in those who read for an hour or longer.

Our analysis finds that for children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years reduces the annual incidence of poverty in adulthood by 6.1 percentage points.