Sentences with phrase «school district spends more»

The fact is that wealthier school districts spend more than $ 10,000 per year on each child being educated, while poorer districts spend about $ 5,000 per student.

As the Center for American Progress has written, while school districts spend more on teachers» salaries and benefits than any other expenditure, research shows that the way these funds are spent does not improve the performance, quality, or distribution of the teacher workforce.

The State Auditor recommended that Washington School Districts spend more on teachers and less on central administration.

The Midwestern school district spent more than $ 80 per pupil tested in grades 5 - 6 and grade 8, but less than $ 60 per pupil in grades K - 2 and grade 12.

In district - level analysis, the Education Trust finds that nationally districts serving high concentrations of low - income students receive on average $ 1,200 less in state and local funding than districts that serve low concentrations of low - income students, and that gap widens to $ 2,000 when comparing high - minority and low - minority districts.17 These findings are further reflected by national funding equity measures reported by Education Week, which indicate that wealthy school districts spend more per student than poorer school districts do on average.18

For example, the Los Angles School District spent more than $ 30 million this summer to purchase iPads for every student.

Not exact matches

The 15 high school teams that competed in the 2009 contest were asked to prepare nutritious lunches while spending no more than about $ 1 per meal on ingredients — significantly more than what the district's food contractor usually spends, according to Bob Bloomer, regional vice president for Chartwells Thompson Hospitality.

He spent more money on his meals than the school district could spend, and brought in more (and better skilled) labor than the school district could afford — in fact, he basically opened a branch of one of his restaurants in a high school — which is in no way working «within the constraints.»

The park and school districts were anticipating each spending more than $ 1 million for renovations.

Shows like Jamie Oliver's «Food Revolution,» and school districts like Chef Ann Cooper's former district in Berkeley, CA and current district in Boulder, CO, are often held up as examples of what's possible in school food reform, yet it's seldom ever mentioned that in each of these cases, far more money is being spent on those meals than the current federal reimbursement rate — and far more than that rate plus six cents.

So a kid that is willing to stomach the school lunch in a district that is indeed serving slop, is spending more via a la carte items to supplement the lack of food included in the original lunch.

We are told over and over that there's not enough money to fix school lunch, yet we live in a country where we consistently spend 2, 3, 4 or even 5 times more for our daily coffee than we do on food for our children's school lunch, which in most school districts amounts to less than a dollar.

However, stories like this one just add fuel to the «large school districts are just inefficient in the way they spend their money» fire, and weakens what should be the unified message of school food reformers — «it just costs more to do it right.»

Every now and then, an article will appear somewhere touting a «school food miracle worker» who is able to serve what appears to be healthier, higher quality food than what is typically found in school lunch programs, and sometimes the claim is made that the meals cost no more than what a typical school district spends on a less healthy meal.

School spending on Long Island is projected to rise an average 2.35 percent for the 2017 - 18 school year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of distSchool spending on Long Island is projected to rise an average 2.35 percent for the 2017 - 18 school year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of distschool year, with school taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of distschool taxes to increase an average 1.73 percent — more than this year's hikes, but within state tax - cap restrictions for the great majority of districts.

The budget also includes a new policy that requires school districts to report more details about how they plan to spend the money on a school - by - school basis.

A committee of the state Board of Regents recommends spending $ 2.1 billion more on schools in the new state budget, saying it's time to continue an effort begun a decade ago to funnel more money to the state's poorest school districts.

A study by the New York State Association of School Business Officials found that spending in wealthier districts for special needs students was almost double the spending in more impoverished districts.

Cuomo has mentioned several things in the last week: a surcharge on for - hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft to generate funds for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, requirements that school districts provide a school - by - school breakdown of their spending, and more funding for the New York City Housing Authority.

The statement in large part places the onus on school districts to find ways of spending the money the state sent to them, not simply adding more cash to their coffers.

Recall Cuomo's 2011 - 12 budget address in which he singled out superintendents — particularly Syosset's Carole Hankin, whose more than $ 500,000 in salary and benefits is the highest in the state — as a prime example of wasteful spending by school districts.

Nevertheless, advocates have pushed him to spend more, arguing urban and rural school districts have been left short changed by the state's complicated formula for funding schools.

«The comptroller is really looking at, as we move into next year, whether or not the tax cap, which is at its lower point ever for school districts for the upcoming fiscal year, for 2016 - 17, to see the impact of that and whether or not if forces more districts to spend down that fund balance, to rely on borrowing, and if the impact does push anybody else into fiscal stress next year,» Butry says.

Gillirband — who attended Dartmouth College and UCLA Law School before spending a decade as a litigator in Manhattan — attributed her more conservative prior positions to the conservative and overwhelmingly white demographic of the 20th Congressional District, which first elected her to the House in 2006.

Wealthier schools in the state spend 80 percent more on student education than poorer districts.

The Buffalo Public School District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their builSchool District has a new school budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their builschool budget with more spending and staff cuts as individual schools get a say on spending in their buildings.

New York City spends more money on fringe benefits for teachers and other education personnel than any other school district in country, according to a new study.

State auditors contend the Schoharie Central School District has been overestimating how much it expected to spend over the past five years, suggesting the district collected more taxes than neDistrict has been overestimating how much it expected to spend over the past five years, suggesting the district collected more taxes than nedistrict collected more taxes than necessary.

«Municipalities throughout New York State, including school districts which are the biggest driver of property taxes, have by and large responded to the cap with prudent budgeting, more efficiency and restrained spending.»

Jim Tallon, a former assemblyman and chair of the Board of Regents» state aid committee, expressed broad criticisms of Cuomo's budget proposal, arguing the spending plan should have included more information about the distribution of funding and more money for pre-K for upstate school districts.

While Buffalo schools are looking for millions of dollars more from Albany in the annual school aid budget fight, the district is diving into the intricacies of its spending and hoping to knock millions off its costs.

The proposed city budget spending is $ 245 million, plus more than $ 400 million for the Syracuse City School District.

Gov. Scott Walker issued 99 partial vetoes of the $ 76 billion state budget on Wednesday, including a provision that would have allowed low - spending school districts to raise more money from property taxes.

Early next year, newly inaugurated Gov. Andrew Cuomo will have to set forth an austere budget, cutting more than $ 10 billion from projected state spending — cuts that will send shock waves through local governments and school districts, themselves reeling from declining revenue and recession - related spending demands.

Mechanicville is just one of the more than half - dozen local districts where voters will decide Tuesday whether to spend the money on hiring a full - time school resource officer.

«When Cuomo says we spend more per capita, the fact is a lot of school districts are grossly underfunded,» Hawkins said.

Talk of the Sound has been reporting for more than a year on the out - of - control spending by the New Rochelle School District and warning that totally unrealistic assumptions about property assessments, state aid and one - time injections of stimulus funding.

State Sen. Jim Tedisco lauded the district and its administrators for spending the funding on hiring more teachers and expanding programs aimed at needy children and proposing a budget that cuts school taxes.

The budget requires districts located in cities with populations of more than one million to submit a detailed, school - by - school accounting of how they spent state educational funds.

A committee of the New York State Board of Regents recommends spending $ 2.1 billion more on schools in the new state budget, saying it's time to continue an effort begun a decade ago to funnel more money to the state's poorest school districts.

«If Dayton schools were in great shape, I would say it's less complicated than it is,» he said, noting that the district spends more than $ 14,000 per pupil, while Immaculate spends under $ 5,000.

What's more, in the 1995 - 96 school year, the tiny, 260 - student Sausalito district that includes the school spent $ 12,100 per student, compared with $ 4,977 per pupil statewide.

In comparison, the Houston Independent School District spends slightly more: $ 9,728.

Cohorts with more years of exposure to higher predicted spending increases have higher completed years of schooling than cohorts from the same district who were unexposed or had fewer years of exposure.

The students then spend five to six more class periods examining the question of whether a school district that prohibited Sikh school children from bringing a metal bladed kirpan onto school grounds violated the Sikh school children's first amendment right to exercise their religion freely.

Another possible explanation for our findings of large school - spending effects is that how the money is spent matters a lot and that districts use the resources that come from unexpected increases in school spending more productively than they use other resources.

Long known for its role in preparing students to take college entrance exams, Kaplan, Inc. now is spending more time helping school districts with curriculum and professional development.

More than 45 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts where spending equals or eclipses the national average.

In Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston, the coefficients of variation were nearly always more than 0.15, meaning that one - third of the schools in these districts had spending levels that deviated from their district's average by 15 percent (or $ 225,000 for a school of 500 when average spending is $ 3,000 per pupil).

Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.