Sentences with phrase «percent of budgets»

Twenty four city governments around the world have pledged 10 percent of their budgets to climate resilience, a total of $ 5.2 billion that will directly benefit 33 million people.

The law passed in January allows underperforming districts to increase their spending on charter schools to 12 percent of their budgets this academic year and then by 1 percent each year, until 2016, when they would reach the limit of 18 percent.

To put that in perspective, districts typically spend between 5 and 10 percent of their budgets on teacher professional development, according to TNTP, or up to $ 26,000 per teacher annually.

Even after adjusting for cost of living and student poverty variables, they found that districts with lower productivity spent $ 950 more per student than districts with above average productivity, and the most inefficient districts tended to devote an extra 3 percent of their budgets to administration and other nonteaching expenditures.

If 5 percent of students leave, districts keep 98.7 percent of their budgets.

Since 2007, we have increased principals» control from just three percent to more than 80 percent of their budgets.

On average, the federal government contributes about 10 percent to the total amount spent on public education, but these dollars account for a larger portion of many high - poverty districts» budgets.11 For example, Los Angeles Unified School District and Chicago Public Schools — both high - poverty districts — receive about 15 percent of their budgets from the Education Department.12 These dollars serve essential purposes, such as supplementing services for low - income students, defraying the cost of individualized education programs for students with disabilities, and compensating for a loss of property tax due to federally owned land.

School districts spend about 60 percent of their budgets on teacher and staff compensation, so a 10 percent increase in retirement contributions means roughly 6 percent of the entire budget has to be reallocated from educating children to paying off underfunded pension plans.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, states are in the red for about $ 130 billion, or 20 percent of budgets in 46 states, for 2011 and 2012.

Meanwhile, public charter schools got 10.2 percent of their budgets from foundations in fiscal 2007, which dropped to 6.3 percent in fiscal 2011, Maloney found.

Texas schools would count the salaries of librarians — but not those of nurses, guidance counselors, or bus drivers — as instructional expenses under proposed rules that would define how districts would comply with a new state mandate to spend 65 percent of their budgets on classroom costs.

Urban districts typically spend up to 85 percent of their budgets on payroll.

The 46 states that responded to the survey ended the 2005 fiscal year with an aggregate balance of $ 35.7 billion — which is 7 percent of their budgets.

Figures 1 and 2 demonstrate that affiliates in states with right to work laws or without required collective bargaining receive around 20 percent of their budgets from the national organization.

These calculations showed that principals controlled 6 percent of their budgets in New York City, a traditional «unitary» district, contrasted with 92 percent in Edmonton, one of the decentralized «multidivisional» districts.

But it was the timing of the city's couture week, in January and July, that yielded the most advantage, allowing them to align their main lines with the lucrative sales period for pre-collections, when wholesale buyers spend about 80 percent of their budgets.

Lhuillier hopes that the move will help increase her global exposure, as well as tap the lucrative sales period for pre-collections, when buyers spend about 80 percent of their budgets.

Yet fully 85 percent of budgets managed to pass.

The state comptroller recommends municipalities and school districts hold no more than 10 percent of budgets in reserve.

The comptroller's office calculated that Middle Country's reserves amounted to between 5.6 percent and 5.7 percent of budgets over three years, though the district's math indicated 4 percent.

It has been keeping track of the votes since 1969, and they say on average 83 percent of budgets are approved each year.

It is economic because it is waste on a colossal scale.Often up to 50 percent of budgets are absorbed by coping with poverty.

The average AdWords account wastes 76 percent of its budget on search terms that never produce conversions, let alone sales.

So, carve out 10 percent of your budget and invest in experimentation, but don't expect immediate returns.

Dedicate 70 to 80 percent of the budget to driving traffic to high - converting landing pages to your lead magnets or other offers.

Percent of budget allocated: Their are all sorts of costs that go into putting together a winning social media marketing plan.

«For these larger charities, you want to see at least 75 percent of their budget going to programs and services,» said Sandra Miniutti, vice president of marketing for Charity Navigator, a service that provides information about a charity's functions, finances and management.

WeWork spends a significant percent of its budget in marketing efforts; efforts that have helped educate the world about coworking.

WebVisible found an average campaign has four dangerous keywords that consume up to 22 percent of the budget but deliver less than 3 percent of the conversions to leads.

Last month the company said it plans to invest nearly 70 percent of this budget to boost production in Permian and Montney, as oil investors pressure producers to improve production without significantly increasing capital budgets.

Today, defense spending is 5 percent of GDP and 20 percent of the budget.

A bill to force any future government to always spend zero point seven percent of its budget on international... More

One county in bankruptcy right now is spending SEVENTY FIVE percent of its budget on police and fire pensions.

We support a balanced budget, but to do so will require deep cuts in the mandatory spending that account for two - thirds of federal spending — not much smaller discretionary accounts like foreign assistance, which represents less than two - thirds of one percent of the budget.

In 1971 Christian Evangelizers Association employed a professional fund - raising organization to develop the solicitation of audience members, that year spending $ 252,000 or 22.5 percent of its budget on fund - raising activities.

The current proposal allocates as much as 10 percent of the budget for parks and recreation.

Residents collected 1,142 signatures for a referendum to limit the board from spending more than 10 percent of its budget on capital improvements without voter approval.

Personnel costs at the park district represent more than 80 percent of the budget.

In fact, 44 percent of the budget — about $ 133 million — is being pumped into neighborhood park improvements, up from just 26 percent in 1993, Claypool said.

He estimates that administrative costs are 2 percent of the budget.

However, with about 30 percent of the budget left to be passed (the rest has already been approved via extender bills), it does not look it will be included in the final days of negotiations.

«Eighty - three percent of our budget here in Monroe County is controlled by the State of New York and every year the programs grow and grow and grow in terms of their impact,» Brooks said.

The two greatest sources of spending in 2017 were education spending, which made up 40 percent of the annual budget, and public safety, which comprised nearly 20 percent of the budget.

If he's so incompetent and his staff is so incompetent that he can't cut 1.5 percent of his budget, he can call to ask for my help.

«85 percent of a budget is a significant number,» she said.

Roughly 85 percent of the budget is earmarked for mandatory spending on county services and programs.

The county Legislature, its role is to oversee the budget, to work with the county executive to establish priorities in the budget, and right now, with 70 percent of the budget mandated by the state, there is very little left for county services that aren't mandated.

Medicaid costs in Rockland are less than 10 percent of the county budget, however those costs account for nearly 80 percent of the budget for the county's Department of Social Services.

And Horrigan highlighted mandates in the county budget the local government has no control over, saying that 90 percent of the budget come by way of unfunded mandates from Albany.

Another 6 percent of the budget goes towards serving the city's debt.