Sentences with phrase «same money per pupil»

The Chancellor must ensure that every school is guaranteed at least the same money per pupil as when the Conservatives took office in 2015.

Not exact matches

Dianne Payne leaves the Tweed Courthouse in Manhattan after asking a judge to force the state to pay the same amount of money that the New York City system spends per pupil for two of her children to attend private school.

Charters receive more money per pupil because they don't receive the same level of services from the central office as traditional schools do.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

The truth is that the school gets superior results with the same or slightly bigger class sizes and less state money per pupil.

A lump sum and per pupil funding formula is not the most efficient way to share out a limited pot of money, although it is simple, because it assumes that every extra child costs the same to educate.

Typically they are operated by nonprofit organizations that rely on donations to provide seed money but then use the same per - pupil money doled out to the public schools for ongoing operations.