We will continue to seek efficiency savings in the NHS and in our schools, but that money will be recycled to protect
spending in these priority areas.
Not exact matches
- and how can we ensure preventative
spending — early years
spending, support for troubled families, public and mental health services, scientific research into new cures and treatments —
areas where
spending now saves billions
in the future - is given a high
priority.
The cost - of - services model can also uncover relatively high
spending in an
area of low
priority.
Districts were freed to
spend the money within each grant on any of the programs
in that subject
area or on new
priorities consistent with the goals of those programs.
Known as the LCAP, the plan describes how districts assess their needs, engage with community members, identify goals
in eight state
priority areas (which include student engagement, school climate and achievement), specify programs for achieving the goals, outline
spending for each program and coordinate their plan with district budgets.
Constraints on available funding include discretionary
spending caps that limit available funds as well as competing
priorities outside of the education arena
in areas like infrastructure and health.