Sentences with phrase «respondents living in districts»

Meanwhile, should local schools perform higher than expected, as they may for at least some respondents living in districts in the upper half of the national rankings, then the opposite pattern of results may emerge.

Among respondents living in districts that spend less than $ 9,440 ($ 3,000 below the average district), 61 % of uninformed respondents support higher spending, just 12 percentage points above such views among the uninformed.

Not exact matches

It estimates that expenditures average $ 6,680 per pupil, hardly more than 50 percent of the average actual expenditure level of $ 12,637 per pupil in the districts where respondents live.

The survey is supplemented by a separately collected data set on the demographics and academic performance of the school districts in which each respondent lives.

When we asked respondents to estimate per pupil spending in their local school district, the average response in 2016 was $ 7,020, little more than 50 % of the actual per pupil expenditure of $ 12,440, on average, in the districts in which respondents lived.

A one percentile increase in actual performance in the district in which the respondent lived was associated with an increase of roughly 0.4 percentile points in the respondent's estimate.

Informed respondents living in above - average districts, however, actually back higher salaries for teachers (if uninformed of current levels) and give greater support to teachers unions.

Over half of respondents said they'd upgrade to a better neighborhood and 40 percent chose a better school district to live in.