Sentences with phrase «lower per pupil»

And, while there are exceptions, schools with a higher proportions of English Language learners also tend to have fewer experienced teachers and thus lower per pupil expenditures, as visible on Slide # 26:

Arizona's Mesquite Elementary is one of the top - performing schools in the state but has one of the lowest per pupil budgets.

Arizona has the second lowest per pupil spending in the nation, and Mesquite has the lowest per pupil funding in southern Arizona, with administrative costs at half the national average.

For example, Education Week downgraded Utah's ranking on their Quality Counts report because of the low per pupil spending and high class sizes.

North Carolina spends $ 855 less per student than it did before the Great Recession, and we have one of the lowest per pupil spending levels in the nation.

Not exact matches

This year the state returns to more familiar territory, with some of the nation's largest class sizes, near the lowest per - pupil spending and a finish in the bottom tier for the category.

Except in areas with a very high level of spending per pupil, the homestead rate will be lower than the general rate.

With just seven per cent of gifted and talent pupils receiving free school meals, the Liberal Democrats point out children from low income families are half as likely to be identified as gifted.

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

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».

«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.»

So - called high needs schools will be able to raise a maximum of $ 10 more per pupil, while wealthy or low needs schools can raise up to $ 27 per student, under the cap.

«At the extremes, the pupil premium in the local authority with the lowest total funding per pupil (Wokingham) is about two - and - a-half times greater than the value of the pupil premium in the local authority with the highest level of funding per pupil (Tower Hamlets).»

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.

Massachusetts's progressive school - finance system, the product of reforms made in 1993, begins by establishing a minimum per - pupil spending figure - the foundation budget - that accords low - income children a premium of about 42 percent over that allotted other children.

Even though the UK fares better in the bracket of lower secondary education (aged 10 - 13) its 14.3 pupils per teacher is only lower than the Netherlands (16.0) and France (15.1) in the EU, with the average being 12.6.

Education Trust has a second, closely related measure, which assigns low - income students a weight of 1.4 in the per - pupil calculation, on the assumption that it costs 40 percent more to educate low - income children.

But, in areas with consistently low densities of high performing school places, the proportion of pupils with access to such places fell from just six per cent in 2010 to five per cent in 2015.

States also receive lower scores for restrictions on the scholarship sizes below the lower of either $ 10,000 or parity with public school spending per pupil.

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.

The goal of these school finance reforms (SFRs) was to increase spending levels in low - spending districts, and in many cases to reduce the differences in per - pupil school - spending levels across districts.

For the indicator capturing the percent of students in districts where per - pupil expenditures reach or exceed the U.S. average, the corrected national value is 39.8 percent, with revised values lower than previously reported for 36 states.

Yet, given the low cost per pupil, it may nevertheless be a programme worth pursuing.

Specifically, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases the probability of high school graduation by 7 percentage points for all students, by roughly 10 percentage points for low - income children, and by 2.5 percentage points for nonpoor children.

For children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases family income by 17.1 percent.

In states that passed SFRs, low - spending districts initially experienced greater increases in per - pupil spending than similar districts in nonreform states, while high - spending districts experienced decreases.

Investigating the causal effect of school spending increases generated by the passage of SFRs, we conclude that increasing per - pupil spending yields large improvements in educational attainment, wages, and family income, and reductions in the annual incidence of adult poverty for children from low - income families.

For children from low - income families, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases educational attainment by 0.5 years.

While we find only small effects for children from nonpoor families, for low - income children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with roughly 0.5 additional years of completed education, 9.6 percent higher wages, and a 6.1 - percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.

Edgewood adopted the highest tax rate in the area but yielded the least funding for its schools, while Alamo Heights adopted a substantially lower tax rate that yielded considerably more per - pupil funding.

Therefore, even when states provide equal per - pupil funding for all students, low - income children and communities remain disadvantaged.

Others fund some items (e.g., staff or programs) in «one per district» amounts such that when the costs of those items are divided by the lower enrollment of smaller districts, per - pupil price tags are quite high.

If a district has «negative aid» in Wisconsin's third tier of funding, it must share some of its local revenue with districts whose per - pupil property values are lower than the state average.

A new report by the Education Trust compares per - pupil funding available in the quarter of school districts that have the lowest child - poverty rates with funding in the 25 percent districts that have the hightest poverty levels.

But Nevada is first on that indicator only because 69 percent of its students attend the Clark County school system, which has one of the lowest per - pupil spending rates in Nevada, at $ 5,215 — the same as the statewide median.

Urban school districts spend significantly less per pupil on their high - poverty schools than their low - poverty ones, a fact that is routinely masked by school budgets that use average - salary figures rather than actual ones, a new paper suggests.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

Pupils from low income families had a 29 per cent chance of being rated below average at reading by teachers, compared to 20 per cent of equally able classmates from high income backgrounds.

The «Learn to Solder Pack» is intended to offer a low - cost introduction to the skill of soldering, just 40 pence per pupil, and provides all of the parts and PCB's required for a class of 25 students.

The average number of entries overall per pupil has fallen since 2013, standing at 0.70 in 2016, which is lower than any other time in the period under review and comes after an increase between 2010 and 2013 from 0.75 to 0.80.

However, the figures are still disproportionately low as 93.2 per cent of England's pupils are educated in the state sector.

The school system has increased the amount of money it spends per pupil and offers incentives to experienced teachers to encourage them to teach in schools with lower - performing students.

It came about, in California, in part because we have one of the lowest per - pupil expenditures for public education in the country.

The CommUNITY slate, noting that Douglas County's low per - pupil rate means that teachers can sometimes get a $ 10,000 raise by switching to a neighboring district, promises to educate the community on the need to pass a tax increase in 2018.

Chicago's per - pupil spending in 2012 — 13 was $ 13,400, higher than the national average and what is spent in Los Angeles and Houston, for example, but far lower than what is spent in New York City or Boston.

Specifically, the low projection, which would produce $ 9,519 in per - pupil spending in 2020, is based on an average growth rate of 0.1 percent, similar to the period from 1991 to 1996.

What's more, many U.S. cities have no hope of attracting CMOs: a large majority of CMOs are either committed to staying in a particular city or state or can not operate in states with lower per - pupil funding.

The schools vary widely in funding levels and other resources, from those that can barely make ends meet on per - pupil allotments that are lower than other high schools in the area to a few schools that amass large budgets from multiple sources and boast extraordinary technology and staffing.

When asked to estimate how much is spent per pupil nationwide, the public makes an average estimate of $ 10,155 — quite close to the Census Bureau's estimate of $ 10,608 in current spending per - pupil for 2012 and only modestly lower than the Department of Education's estimate of $ 12,608 for 2011 (which includes capital and debt expenses).