When state lawmakers approved a 2 percent cap on annual tax levy increases in 2011, they said the legislation was designed to
control school district spending and ease the burden on taxpayers.
The argument makes intrinsic sense to many: if one
school district spends significantly more educating its students, then of course those students will perform better academically.
The Greene
County school district spends $ 34,878 per pupil, compared with $ 13,492 per pupil at General Brown Central School District in Jefferson County.
As the debate in California grows regarding both the sufficiency and efficiency of school funds, there is still a lack of understanding regarding what
school districts spend money on and where they
Our hundred
wealthiest school districts spend almost $ 10,000 per pupil and they drive up the average, but our hundred poorest school districts are running a deficit of $ 10,000 per pupil.»
According to the New Jersey D.O.E., the city's public
school district spent almost $ 17,000 per pupil in 2005, while the rest of the state spent about than $ 11,000 (see Figure 1).
Another government study reports that
urban school districts spend on average about 3.5 percent of their budget on facilities maintenance (compared to a national average expenditure of 9.4 percent).
The Daily News reported that the New York
City school district spent more than $ 65 million annually just to pay the teachers who were accused of wrongdoing.
Although
many school districts spent millions of dollars on security hardware, many made the decision to invest in hardware in isolation and without student input, Poland added.
That is less than a third of the nearly $ 10,000 per student that the Greenwood Public
School District spends while not being able to provide basics like textbooks to take home.
The study also found that OSPI's annual Report Card greatly overstated the amount
Washington School Districts spend on teaching: «NCES data shows that Washington spent 60.2 percent of its education dollars on classroom instruction in 2009.
Tuition at the 3 - D School is about $ 10,000, which is in line with
what school districts spend per student on average across the state.
Twenty - five 4th and 5th graders from Elton Hills Elementary School in the
Rochester school district spent March 13 - 24 in a sports club's floor - hockey rink, which had been converted for them into a high - tech classroom.
In writing regulations for the new law, Secretary of Education, John B. King, proposes that
school districts spend as much per student of state and local funds on students in poor schools as is spent on students in the district's other schools.
School districts spend hundreds of thousands of dollars recruiting teachers, but invest almost nothing — in terms of time or money — to keep their teachers from leaving the schools or the profession.
Corrected on Nov. 7, 2015: An earlier version of this blog post incorrectly indicated how a Montclair, New
Jersey school district spent $ 5 million; the money was for, not from, tuition payments.
In my city, New York, elite private schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York
suburban school districts spend per student.
Yet individuals and
school districts spent considerable sums for programs claiming to provide critical activation of both sides of the brain to overcome the deficiencies of weak right or left brains that held back student intelligence and success.
Still, particularly shocking was this tidbit: «The New York City
school district spends twice as much per pupil on instructional salaries as does Los Angeles Unified.»