In addition to demonstrating the geographic spread of low income students and highly mobile (migrant, foster care, homeless) students, LEV also walked through district salary enhancements, levy & local effort assistance changes, and
overall per pupil funding.
Not exact matches
If you drive
per pupil funding towards a certain group - an extremely worthy group admittedly - but then hold cash
funding per pupil at the same level
overall then you are actually cutting * cash * spending
per pupil for the majority.
Gov. Roy Romer of Colorado has signed a school - finance bill that includes $ 205 million in new
funding for K - 12 education but will still result in an
overall 4 percent decrease in
per -
pupil spending.
Moving on to what people think about education and schools, Page said that
overall, concern about education is drifting downwards and that it is actually
pupil behaviour and discipline that is the biggest issue (at 17
per cent) followed by
funding (nine
per cent) rather than standards and attainment.
The schools operated by CMOs often receive less
overall public
funding on a
per -
pupil basis than comparable district - run public schools, with the deficit ranging from approximately 10 to 30 percent.
Already 35 states provided less
overall education
funding per pupil in the 2014 - 15 school year than they did in 2008 - 09.
This is the biggest collective protest so far from the school
funding campaigners, who have been warning of an
overall lack of investment and a failure to resolve differences in levels of
per pupil spending.
Coupled with a recent report that ranked North Carolina 43rd in
per -
pupil spending nationally,
overall school
funding figures to be a major part of the May rally.
As predicted, there will be a 2.3 percent increase in
funding across the board, a $ 464 million bump over the two years, including an
overall increase in
per pupil funding for every student in the state.