Not exact matches
With their newly found freedom, we are increasingly
seeing schools start to adopt cost saving procurement practices where the
return on investment (ROI) and value for money is crucial.
• Increase the level of funding for Nevada public
schools and ensure that taxpayers are
seeing a
return on investment
And so have public
schools seen a
return on this massive
investment in teachers and especially administrators and other non-teaching staff?
«
Schools need to invest in keeping good people though and they will
see a
return on investment in terms of results,» Mr Toop added.
But many have questioned throwing money at the problem — Newark
schools already spend $ 22,000 a pupil, more than double the national average, and like many inner - city districts has hardly
seen a
return on that
investment at test time (less than half of fourth graders are proficient in English).
«We're not going to spend the same
on students from disadvantaged backgrounds as students in the suburbs,» says Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who recently led a study called
Return on Educational
Investment, «but when you look across the U.S., we
see that some
schools are able to do more with less.