Sentences with phrase «pupil voucher amount»

Because the per - pupil voucher amount our students received from the state had not increased in more than five years, we had no reserves to fall back on, and no endowment.

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The calculations are based on 18,500 enrollees in MPCP, a voucher amount of $ 6,501, and MPS revenue limit per pupil of $ 9,141.

The amount of the voucher is less than the per - pupil revenues allocated to MPS, which implies a savings for taxpayers, just as voucher supporters claim.

Second, suppose the amount of the voucher is identical to the revenues per pupil at the district school.

The need for richer data constitutes a primary reason why fellow researchers and I support the creation of a citywide program that offers vouchers set at the amount of per - pupil funding in area public schools.

The amount of the voucher for 2016 - 17 is estimated to be $ 7,323 (for pupils in grades K - 8) or $ 7,969 (for pupils in grades 9 - 12).

Next, the voucher amount may or may not equal the actual per pupil dollars spent on the child — creating a financial burden for the receiving district as well as for the district that loses the student.

He pointed out that vouchers are already capped at 90 percent of the local school district's per - pupil funding amount.

Currently, the transfer amount is indexed to general and categorical aid increases to public schools in the same way per pupil payments to private voucher schools and independent charter school payments are adjusted — which accounts for the governor's proposed increase for private school tuition subsidies of $ 217 per pupil.

The scaled - back version of the bill that passed Thursday would allow school districts to retain as much funding in state aid and property tax levy authority per pupil as the amount of each student's private school voucher.

Funded by appropriation, each student's voucher is funded at the statewide average of the per - pupil expenditures by all local education agencies for the current school year, up to but not exceeding the amount of tuition at the private school.

Under the amendment, school districts in which resident pupils attend private voucher schools through the statewide or Racine voucher programs would retain revenue limit authority equal to the amount of state aid they lose to private school vouchers.

How states accrued the savings depended on the average voucher amounts compared with the average per - pupil variable spending in public schools, according to Spalding.

Forman, for example, believes per - pupil amounts for many voucher and tax credit scholarship programs are too low for the low - income students they're intended to help, reflecting conservative positions that education funding as a whole is bloated.

The voucher amount equals the lesser of state and local spending per pupil or the cost of private school tuition.

This enables scholarship organizations to work with families and schools to determine the amount necessary to finance a child's education, an amount usually far lower than government per - pupil spending or even many set voucher amounts; the average tuition at private schools is about half what is spent per pupil in the public system.

The vouchers are worth up to $ 4,650 for pupils in grades K — 8 and up to $ 5,900 per high - school student; these amounts are typically less than half the per - pupil funding received by comparable public schools.

The Wisconsin Voucher Taxpayer Transparency bill would have required property tax bills include information on the amount of any net reduction in state aid to the home district as a result of pupils enrolled in any of the state's school voucher programs.