Sentences with phrase «spent per pupil annually»

A frequent metric, however misguided, for measuring school quality is the amount of money a district spends per pupil annually.

Not exact matches

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.

Each schools spends about $ 19,000 annually per pupil, almost double the national average.

Indeed, adjusted for inflation, the average amount spent annually per pupil at the nation's district schools has approximately tripled since 1970 and yet the scores of 17 - year - olds on the Long - Term Trend Assessments of the National Assessment of Educational Progress have remained flat.

If funding were the primary driver of quality, then Washington, DC's district schools, which spend almost $ 30,000 per pupil annually, should be among the nation's best instead of among the worst.

Based on historic spending trends and estimating that the federal government's stimulus contribution will grow to approximately $ 90 billion, Guthrie and Peng project that national per pupil revenues could increase at a rate of nearly 2.5 percent annually over the next ten years.

Even after making cost - of - living adjustments, $ 7,500 per pupil annually is a minimal amount to spend on a child's education.

The average private school tuition, he notes, is between $ 8,000 and $ 10,000 while district schools spend about $ 8,300 per pupil annually on instruction (and more than $ 9,400 per pupil in total).

The United States spends more per pupil on public education than any other country in the world, about one trillion dollars annually, but it is at the bottom of the class.

The reason he is declaring war on the status quo is because NY spends over $ 19,000 annually per pupil (highest of the 50 states) yet the proficiency rate of 4th graders is only 40 % in math and 37 % in reading!

This, by the way, in a school system where per pupil spending averages $ 13,000 annually, above the national average (and well above what any socialist or communist country has ever spent per pupil on education.)