Sentences with phrase «reduced funding per student»

The university systems in both New Zealand and Australia have recently suffered from reduced funding per student.

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In previous work, one of us found that Washington State's 2004 compensatory allocation formula ensured that affluent Bellevue School District, in which only 18 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price lunch, receives $ 1,371 per poor student in state compensatory funds, while large urban districts received less than half of that for each of their impoverished students (see Figure 2).

These «cyber» charters must now document their instructional minutes, and their per - pupil funding may be reduced if they offer less than the minimum number of student course minutes per year — a district - style regulation of the process of education without regard for outcomes.

When enrollments are rising, however, the dilemma faced by state governments is even more difficult, as maintaining the same level of funding per student necessitates either raising taxes or reducing other types of expenditures.

These funds also helped reduce class sizes across Kaukauna's elementary, middle, and high schools by two to six students per classroom.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

[13] First, complete reliance on public funding meant universities were under constant pressure to limit enrollments, reduce per - student expenditures, or both (with higher - achieving students, and more elite institutions, typically most insulated from these consequences).

The school has a 9 per cent gap in expected progress in English and a 10 per cent gap in maths between pupil premium and non-pupil premium funded students, something that Mrs Skinner said Claydon was working hard to reduce further.

Additionally, my school's budget was reduced by 3.26 percent (adding to a total of almost 14 percent in the past four years), general per - pupil funding was cut by 6 percent, and the city decided students with special needs would receive 15 percent less per - pupil funding than before.

The proposal requires DPI to reduce a school district's funding by the same amount that is paid per student to independent charter schools, currently about $ 8,000.

After years of struggle by many communities, the state finally reduced funding disparities from thousands of dollars per student to less than $ 700.

To fix funding arrangements, we propose reducing the automatic annual growth (indexation) of both target and actual funding per student to recognise the low inflation environment we now live in.

In addition to increasing per - pupil funding, Huberty's bill provides schools with weighted funding for students with dyslexia, and reduces the amount of money that local taxpayers in wealthier areas would pay in Recapture by $ 163 million in 2018 and $ 192 million in 2019.

The program was created in 2006 when he Legislature reduced property tax rates by one - third, and guaranteed that school districts would have the ability to maintain at least the same level of per - student funding for weighted average daily attendance during the 2005 - 06 school year.

Sending towns have the option of increasing the voucher to as high as 115 percent of the per - student funding, but may not reduce the voucher below that rate.

They argue that with the onset of the recession, the Texas Legislature has reduced support for low - income schools to create a funding gap of more than $ 1,000 per student.

Vouchers and voucher - like «education savings accounts» similarly reduce per - student funding for public school systems without providing relief on fixed costs.

Under state rules, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is required to reduce a school district's funding by the same amount that is paid per student to an independent charter school, currently about $ 8,000.