Not exact matches
With non-departmental
expenditure rising more than expected because of the economy's poor performance, and large chunks of Whitehall spending on foreign aid,
schools and the NHS ringfenced, the chancellor has little choice but to confront politically sensitive areas like defence and the police to achieve the savings.
In 2013/14,
schools»
expenditure on furniture
rose by 6.2 per cent.
Total Federal Government funding per student for Australian public
schools rose by 115.2 per cent over the past decade, compared with 15.8 per cent for private
schools although the total Federal Government
expenditure per student is still higher for private
school students at $ 6434 compared with $ 1915 for public
school students.
Although both the number of
school employees and
expenditures per pupil have
risen steadily for many decades, that trend has come to an end.
From 2009/10, average ICT budgets across all
schools fell year on year until 2012/13, when secondary maintained
schools indicated a 1.8 per cent
rise in technology
expenditure.
In August it revealed a general
rise in
expenditure in
schools.
With so many targets to be met, energy prices
rising and public sector spending under constant pressure, it is vital that
schools particularly are made as efficient as possible to cut
expenditure on energy bills.
Ironically, the primary effect of the city's revenue loss from
rising charter payments may have been to slow the growth in
expenditures in public safety and other city departments, where
expenditures rose more slowly than the
school budget.
Specifically, IDEA has been woefully underfunded for years and as a result,
school districts have been forced to raise taxes and dip into general education budgets to make up the shortfalls created by
rising special education
expenditures in local communities.»
These figures further support the trend seen over the last few years of
rising school transportation costs, reflecting additional
expenditures many systems are incurring in busing a rapidly growing
school - age population and more special - needs students.
Because of
rising pension costs, Louisiana's
school districts have already made noticeable cuts to their
expenditures on instructional programs, textbooks and other
school supplies, and special education services.
Kennedy said the district expects per - pupil
expenditures at both
schools to
rise when city funding is released in the coming months, which will help all
schools increase their buying power by the fall.