Sentences with phrase «payment to charter schools»

A per - pupil facilities aid program is one in which a state makes payments to charter schools to provide them with financing that must include or be used only for the funding of facilities.

The five other categories of obstructive responses observed are: 1) excessively denying charter applications, 2) creating legal obstacles to charter schools, 3) freezing or delaying payments to charter schools, 4) withholding information from charter schools, and 5) using regulations to restrict choice or interfere with competition.

Among the states, Minnesota (home of the nation's first charter law), Florida, and California allocate some financial assistance for lease payments to charter schools on a per - pupil basis, similar to the way in which operating funds are distributed.

In response to this letter, Christie allocated an additional $ 27 million to Newark Public Schools as a form of «transitional aid» to help ameliorate increased tuition payments to charter schools.

Those demographic changes have been part of the conversation this budget season, and helps explain, in part, the rising cost of employee compensation and payments to charter schools — both factors driving increases in next year's budget.

Payments to charter schools have grown from $ 117 million to an estimated $ 226 million of the district's total budget, estimated at $ 990 million this year.