Not exact matches
«That means that we can now focus our efforts in the coming years on getting New York City schools the Campaign for Fiscal Equity
money they are still owed and building equity into the state aid formula so that
poor school
districts get more state aid
than wealthier ones,» Mulgrew said.
Almost as stupid as STAR where New York intentionally overtaxes to build up
money to write rebate checks for people like Rump... and to give more aid to wealthy school
districts than poor ones.
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.
While it is reasonable that these schools would need more
money, we now have a system where our «
poorest» school
districts are spending significantly more
than others with little to show in positive academic outcomes.
However, in some areas this
money is collected by a
district council, which is the planning authority, rather
than the county council, which has responsibility for school places, and can lead to
poor co-ordination on school buildings.
When you divide the value by the number of kids, we're
poorer than most
districts,» said Petersen, contrasting Weber with Park City School
District, where property values bring in a lot of tax
money to spend on fewer students.
-- In a December report on school efficiency and funding, no clear factors were found between funding, efficiency, and achievement, other
than poor districts require more
money.
Schools in these
poor communities received significantly more
money than other «hold harmless» school
districts, not counting Bloomfield Hills.
This strategy is a direct result of the Malloy administration threat that any school
district that allows more
than 5 percent of their parents to opt out, will lose
money — in this case — federal funds that are supposed to be used to provide extra support to the
poorest child in the local school system.