Sentences with phrase «spending per student during»

Education spending per student during the 2014 - 15 school year increased 2.8 % to $ 11,454, on average across the nation.

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The students spent hours during the winter quarter studying the economics of restaurant takeout, trying to figure out how many orders they needed to deliver per hour to run a profitable business.

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

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.

In contrast, the state spent $ 9,911 per FTE student during 2000 - 01.

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.

As such, a reasonable measure of the level of resources a student is exposed to at the time of testing is the average per - pupil spending during the previous five years.

On average, students spent 7.5 hours per day and 185 days per year in school, compared to an average of 6.9 hours per day and 170 days per year in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) during the period this analysis covers.

While inflation - adjusted public spending per student increased 27 percent between 1992 and 2014, an EdChoice study found, teacher wages actually fell an average of 2 percent during that time (in real dollars).

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

Utah's per - pupil spending fell by more than all but a dozen states during the latest economic slump, dropping the Beehive State — which already spends less per student than any other state — even further behind the national average, according to a new analysis.

Speaking time, for instance, is especially brief: ELL students spend, on average, fewer than 90 seconds per day in classroom talk.1 Acknowledging that some of their ELLs were not receiving necessary language practice during school hours, Lennox officials viewed after - school time as an opportunity to help some of their struggling students.

Utah emerged from the downturn spending nearly 9 percent less per student than during the recession and sluggish recovery, according to the analysis by Ben Casselman at the FiveThirtyEight blog.

Based on analyses produced by the Benchmark Educational Resource Group, annual public education operating expenses in Texas approximate $ 7,000 per student, and total spending increased by over 40 % over the past five years, more than twice the sum of enrollment growth and inflation during that period.

New York City may spend more per student than most districts in the United States ($ 19,597 during the 2009 - 2010 school year according to the U.S. Census), but one education scholar's number crunching shows that the city's schools are underfunded.

During that year, Mississippi spent $ 8,075 per student on education, $ 4,719 of that on teachers» salaries and other costs related to instruction.

Whether it is the role of dopamine in engaging learners K - 12 (music gives our brains a surge of the much beloved chemical) or the growth of empathy found in British students who spent one hour per week during a year's time playing instruments together, research findings about the many ways that the arts improve learning and readiness for college and careers is news we can use.

During the junior and senior year, students begin their field work, spending one day per week in an active classroom.

Overall spending on elementary and high school education declined 3 percent from 2010 to 2014 in the U.S. while education spending in the world's developed countries, on average, rose 5 percent per student during the same period, a report shows.