Sentences with phrase «school spending per student»

It also had the second lowest public school spending per student.

The budget increases school spending per student to $ 10,591 in 2016 - 17 — a boost of nearly $ 3,600 compared with 2011 - 12 levels, according a post on Brown's website: «The budget provides a fourth - year investment of more than $ 2.8 billion in the Local Control Funding Formula, which focuses on students with the greatest challenges to success, bringing the formula to 95 percent implementation.

That's far less than the $ 13,000 Milwaukee public schools spent per student in 2012.

Not exact matches

There are long waiting lists for apprenticeships and trade programs belied by some of the highest per - capita spending in the state for city public school students.

During Raymond's academic years, Camden's schools spent about one - half as much per student as did schools in Princeton, New Jersey.

When she is invited to speak at places like Princeton and people try to argue that it makes little difference that Camden spends $ 4,000 and Princeton $ 8,000 per student, she retorts, «If you don't believe that money makes a difference, let your children go to school in Camden.

The government school spends $ 9,000 per year per student, the parochial school considerably less than half of that.

Congress has failed to pass Child Nutrition Reauthorization that is now over a year past due and even if it had passed, would only have allocated 4 1/2 to 6 cents additional funds per student, so even for the mere pennies per lunch that we could have added to the current $ 2.72 that we spend on school meals, our elected officials couldn't come together for the health of our children.

The governor says while New York spends more per student than any state in the nation, high school graduation rates ranks at number 38 in the country.

New York spends more money per student than any other state in the country, and yet its schools yield mediocre education outcomes, such as test scores and graduation rates.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

The Citizens Budget Commission has created an interactive map to enable taxpayers to see how much is spent per student and compare spending among public school districts.

In an email, a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, «The Governor is committed to enacting an aggressive reform agenda to fix New York's broken education system that spends more per pupil that any other state in the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.»

And a push for more oversight of per - school spending is seen as an effort to highlight school funding issues in New York City, silencing critics of the governor that he is not doing enough to help high - needs schools and students.

The mayor repeatedly declined to say how much the city currently spends per year on tuition for students who are approved for reimbursement for private school education, but according to the city's Independent Budget Office, the city is estimated to have paid out more than $ 200 million in reimbursements this year.

«The governor is fighting to reform a system that spends more money per student than any other state in the nation while condemning hundreds of thousands of children to failing schools over the last decade,» Azzopardi said.

Both schools spend about the same per pupil, have similar teacher - student ratios, similar numbers of guidance counselors, and well - qualified teachers (as measured by education and experience).

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.

They also do not differ significantly in their initial per - pupil spending, average class size, percentage of students receiving subsidized school lunches, percentage of students with limited English proficiency or disabilities, and the mobility of their student populations.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Coleman found that variation in school resources (as measured by per - pupil spending and student - to - teacher ratios) was unrelated to variation in student achievement on standardized tests.

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.

While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class size, having more adults per student in schools, increases in instructional time, and increases in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified teaching workforce.

Specifically, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases the probability of high school graduation by 7 percentage points for all students, by roughly 10 percentage points for low - income children, and by 2.5 percentage points for nonpoor children.

An Education Week Research Center analysis of federal data shows spending levels per student in most U.S. school districts for fiscal year 2013.

Students spending more than six hours online per weekday outside school are particularly at risk of reporting that they feel lonely at school, and that they arrived late or skipped school.

For example, the fact that K12 schools spend $ 715 per student less on support services than public schools in the same states is interpreted as a «cost advantage» for the virtual schools.

Just 4 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts that spend at least the national average per student.

The state ranks 40th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia in education spending per student, at $ 7,041 in the 2001 - 02 school year.

But Nevada is first on that indicator only because 69 percent of its students attend the Clark County school system, which has one of the lowest per - pupil spending rates in Nevada, at $ 5,215 — the same as the statewide median.

Lovenheim and Willén found that students who spent all 12 years of elementary and secondary school in a state with a duty - to - bargain law earn an average of $ 795 less per year as adults than students who were not exposed to collective bargaining laws during the same time period.

I find that students who start school one hour later watch 12 fewer minutes of television per day and spend 9 minutes more on homework per week, perhaps because students who start school later spend less time at home alone.

The state spent $ 6,380 per student in the 2001 - 02 school year, well below the national average of $ 7,734.

Not far away, in another affluent, suburban school district in Montclair, New Jersey, minutes from an August meeting show the board of education approved spending nearly $ 5 million this year for tuition payments — an average of $ 63,000 per student — on «out - of - district placements» for 79 students with a variety of classifications, including learning disabilities and «other health impairment.»

Spending: Delaware spends $ 9,072 per student for education, according to data from the 2001 - 02 school year.

In Massachusetts, charter school students take with them the per - pupil net school spending (state and local) from their sending districts.

That figure still falls below the national average, but almost 29 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts that spend at least the national average per pupil.

Courtenay Harris and Leon Straker's «Survey of physical ergonomics issues associated with school childrens» use of laptop computers» found that students in schools with mandatory laptop programs spent on average more than three hours per day on the computer.

Also, instructional per - pupil spending has increased in all affected public school districts, contradicting the belief that school choice programs take money away from public school students, the report says.

Students in the program attend school for four hours per day, and spend most of their school time at the individual computer stations working through online course materials.

We also know from the NYC DOE budget that schools spent a total of $ 17.9 billion for about 1.1 million students, which works out to $ 16,263 per student.

The big news out of the latest is official confirmation that school districts spent less money per student in 2010 - 11 than they had the year before, the first one - year decline in nearly four decades.

Wealthy school districts in Connecticut typically spent $ 1,227 more per student than poorer ones during the 1981 - 82 school year, according to a recent state report.

Barbara Martinez of the Wall Street Journal visits a Bronx elementary school where students spend two hours per day engaged in computer - directed instruction.

July 14, 2016 — Under former superintendent Cami Anderson, Newark Public Schools spent more per - pupil than any other district in the nation — a whopping $ 25,000 — but failed to improve achievement for its predominately minority student population.

But the U.S. Census Bureau, in a survey of education finances released in July 2009, says Washington spent $ 14,324 per public - school student in the 2006 — 07 school year, or about $ 6,300 more than the national average.

Students whose parents reported «spending time just talking to my child», «eating the main meal with my child around a table» or «discussing how well my child is doing at school» daily or nearly every day were between 22 per cent and 39 per cent more likely to report high levels of life satisfaction.

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The school system has increased the amount of money it spends per pupil and offers incentives to experienced teachers to encourage them to teach in schools with lower - performing students.