Sentences with phrase «school operating costs»

Despite the state being fully - responsible for all public school operating costs, the state covered just 24 percent of supplies and materials spending in the 2015 - 16 school year.

Senators last month effectively killed off a measure providing for a statewide referendum on the amendment when, on the last day of their legislative session, they amended the bill to provide that only two - thirds of school operating costs would be removed from property taxes over 10 years.

Small Schools Operating Costs: Reversing Assumptions About Economies of Scale.

Not exact matches

Instead of buying iPads, schools are turning to low - cost Chromebooks, with a Google - provided operating system, which made up 51 % of institutional purchases during the quarter, according to the study.

Bridge International Academies, the subject of a recent New York Times Magazine piece, operates in hundreds of schools around Kenya and Uganda, with dozens more of its low - cost schools scattered through Nigeria, India, and most recently Liberia.

In most cases, tax revenues pay the costs at private schools up to the expenditures per pupil in government - operated schools.

«The Alliance will help us with costs and quality as we introduce more nutritional options for our students,» said Eric Goldstein, Chief Operating Officer for School Support Services that includes the school lunch prSchool Support Services that includes the school lunch prschool lunch program.

When schools offer both a school meals program and competitive foods, the federal government does not need to underwrite all of the operating costs of the entire program; it is reasonable to expect the revenue generated by competitive foods to cover a share of production, service, and overhead that can reasonably be attributed to providing those foods.

All of this reflects the fact that school food programs in this country are expected to operate like independent businesses, facing the same high food costs and overhead as any restaurant, but further hindered by inadequate funding, reams of regulations (no food operation is more heavily regulated), often grossly inadequate infrastructure and a notoriously fickle clientele.

Some schools operate «independent» school meal programs, meaning that school meal program staff are employees of the supervisory union or school district, and program costs are paid directly by the SU or SD business office.

Just one new piece of equipment helped schools improve nutritional quality and variety, entice more students to eat school meals, and operate more efficiently and cost - effectively.

(As explained in my School Lunch FAQ's, schools do in fact get $ 2.68 for each child served a free lunch, but the majority of that money is spent on operating costs, leaving only a dollar or so for the food.)

Budgeted operating costs for the 2011 - 12 school year were $ 1,302 more per student at NCC than at Suffolk County Community College, according to the report.

For the first time, the privately operated schools will be eligible for government funds to cover the costs of leasing classroom space in private buildings, Albany sources said.

Schools have struggled in recent years with a property - tax cap that limits their ability to raise local revenue, and they're operating under soaring pension and health - care costs.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Judy Patrick of the Daily Gazette about GE's newest startup, a fuel cell business that will operate from the Saratoga Technology and Energy Park in Malta and the high cost of school supplies.

Consequently, most charter school operators are forced to pay for facilities costs out of an already slim operating budget.

This much is clear: Even though a rising demand for safe, low - impact products has driven competition up and prices down, school administrators responsible for purchasing still need to look beyond the up - front sticker price of green products to consider a product's durability and lifetime expectancy, how much energy it consumes over the long haul, and how much it costs to operate and maintain.

Utah ranks last in the nation in per - pupil spending, and Innovations gets the same relative pittance as Salt Lake City's conventional high schools: $ 3,100 per student for operating costs and $ 3,200 for facilities - related costs.

Contact Group is launching a new range of payment and communications solutions designed to help schools interact with parents, operate more efficiently and significantly reduce administrative costs.

Seven out of ten academies are operating with accounting losses, as budgets are being squeezed and schools seek to find cost savings, according to an independent survey of academies.

They failed to develop technologies or other efficiencies to bring down the costs of operating private schools.

The CSD schools operated with a severe funding disadvantage from the outset, receiving little more than the Base Student Cost (BSE) allocation, with no support that would make up for their lack of municipal tax revenue that is the largest source of funds for South Carolina's traditional public schools.

To achieve this the Havering team focused - on working collaboratively to build partnerships with companies and other organisations that not only provide new products and services for schools, but also an ongoing income stream to help cover the operating costs of the not ‑ for - profit organisation.

And their revised strategy of operating public schools under contract with public school districts was flawed by an underestimation of the political resistance they would face and their inability to control costs or quality within the public system.

How much does it cost to operate education schools?

With a few exceptions, the vast majority of charter schools operated by NewSchools CMOs are self - sufficient on public revenues (excluding major capital costs).

Most guests on those programs are subject - matter experts from the school district, and production costs come from an annual operating budget for the television station.

If tuition is taken to be fifty percent of college operating costs, then ed schools can conservatively be estimated to spend $ 2.5 billion annually in direct operational expenditures.

At the core lay a financial arrangement, with D.C. Public Schools paying the New Leaders» salaries during training and NLNS covering the program costs, leaving Davis to raise a $ 1.5 million annual operating budget.

Nationwide, personnel costs typically account for between 75 % and 80 % of school - district operating budgets, and that percentage is even higher in some Sun Belt states and inner cities.

«No one pays the full cost of studying here,» McCartney says, reminding students that the Ed School's endowment covers only about 30 percent of annual operating expenses.

By keeping things simple and operating each branch just a few hours a week, just eight full - time financial - education employees are needed to lead nearly four dozen programs in central Michigan elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools at no cost to the schools involved.

In some of the less - expensive independent schools, the fund - raising subsidies are needed to cover operating costs.

Recognizing that it could not continue to borrow to cover operating costs, the SRC announced that it would close almost 10 percent of the district's 240 schools in 2013.

How to lease well Before obtaining quotations or conducting a tender procedure for equipment, the school or academy should conduct normal good practice pre-procurement steps as for any other procurement, such as: a pre-procurement review, identification of the school's requirements; preparation of a statement of requirements in a form suitable for use as the specification for the invitation to tender; preparation of evaluation criteria; and careful consideration of the cost of leasing against the cost of an outright purchase, is the item in question suitable for an operating lease, will it need replacing frequently and what are the associated costs?

It revealed that seven out of ten academies are operating with accounting losses, as budgets are being squeezed and schools seek to find cost savings.

A good case can be made for Washington to generate sound data, safeguard civil rights, support research, and assist with the costs of educating high - risk kids — but setting the ground rules for schools and operating the system is really the job of states.

Unless states choose to overhaul the antiquated cost structures and operating models that undergird most schools systems, any new investment they make will fall short of hoped - for transformation.

Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).

Alternative systems, competing across the board with government - operated schools, seem to have stimulated the latter to be more efficient (as measured by cost) and more effective (as measured by outcomes) than systems in countries where no such competition exists.

Proponents of vouchers and other measures that expand access to private schooling often claim that competition from privately operated schools will spur student achievement — and, perhaps, lower costs — in public schools.

These dispensing systems are easy to operate for children, and maintenance costs are minimal for schools.

If schools were to use the «converter» method, in which they operate as a stand - alone organisation, the cost to councils could be # 120 million.

Unfortunately, we were not able to control for changes in the number of students who spoke limited English or in the school's operating cost per pupil, because at the time of the study such information was available only up to the 2001 - 02 school year.

As a public school, Aviation High School receives basic state education funding, but, because the school is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improveschool, Aviation High School receives basic state education funding, but, because the school is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improveSchool receives basic state education funding, but, because the school is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improveschool is so small, that funding does not adequately cover all the necessary operating costs and capital improvements.

In the Senate Education Committee, the debate was limited to amendments dealing with implementation: how long private schools had to operate before participating, what tests students receiving vouchers would have to take, what agency would be responsible for the costs of auditing the program.

Add to this the costs associated with finding a temporary building for the school to continue operating.

As in any location, upgrading school lighting from incandescent, fluorescent and other traditional lighting to LED can save schools up to 80 per cent of the operating costs associated with lighting.

CMOs and EMOs may be better positioned to absorb the fixed costs associated with setting up an alternative retirement plan, can more easily assemble the required expertise, and often operate in more than one state, and thus would likely favor mobile benefits that facilitate staff moving from one school to another.