Not exact matches
While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school
spending improves
student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class size, having more adults
per student in schools, increases in
instructional time, and increases in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified teaching workforce.
Also,
instructional per - pupil
spending has increased in all affected public school districts, contradicting the belief that school choice programs take money away from public school
students, the report says.
The LEA then estimates how much
instructional funding eligible private school
students would have generated in their zoned public school had they attended, using the same
per - pupil amount
spent in the public school.
Meanwhile,
instructional spending dropped by $ 706
per student, or about 10 percent.
Twenty miles down the road, Bridgeport, Connecticut
spends $ 13, 101
per student,
per year, of which $ 8,037 goes for «direct
instructional expenditures.»