Sentences with phrase «sparsity funding»

She pointed to a # 26 million sparsity funding factor in the national funding formula.

Small schools in rural areas won't be hit as hard, though, as they will be eligible for sparsity funding

Schools in areas identified as rural (by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) will gain on average 1.3 per cent more — mostly through proposals for a lump sum and sparsity funds.

Not exact matches

There will be extra funding for «sparsity», such as rural areas and small schools, places with a high level of mobility in its school population and funding where there are sharp increases in pupil numbers.

As well as large variations in the average per - pupil funding received by local authorities from government, the onward distribution to schools use local formulae that also vary considerably in terms of the relative importance given to different factors such as deprivation, prior attainment and sparsity.

Since the 2008 - 09 school year, the state has provided additional funding for small, rural districts outside of their revenue limits through sparsity aid, as a way to lessen certain challenges experienced by rural districts with both a small pupil membership and a sparsely populated area.

Three Lakes Board member Terry McCloskey thanked lawmakers for the funding increases they provided in the recently completed legislative session and urged the Commission to distinguish between «programmatic» sparsity and «geographic» sparsity.

Currently, the Sparsity Aid Program aims to offset the challenges faced by the smallest, most rural school districts in the state through providing $ 300 in per - pupil funding for districts with enrollments of 745 or less and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile.

In addition to the squeeze on basic funding, in a shameless attack on small rural schools, the DfE has reduced the sparsity factor by nearly 50 % below the minimum; all to fund the increases for disadvantaged pupils.