Sentences with phrase «state equalization aid»

The Madison school district receives about $ 2,000 per pupil in state equalization aid, but will have to expend $ 7,200 - 7,800 for each voucher student; a portion of our property and state income taxes will support private, religious schools.

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Specifically, starting in 2000, half the voucher deduction was moved from the equalization aid of MPS to the other districts of the state.

The state of Arizona and some of its school districts face a budgetary tangle because of an unprecedented U.S. Education Department decision that the state's funding - equalization plan fails to meet standards set under the federal impact - aid program.

They also said the compensatory - education program should support more schoolwide projects — in which the money is used to upgrade the entire school, rather than to benefit only eligible students — and should be supplemented by a separate aid program designed to stimulate education - funding equalization within states.

AEF has tried to equalize access to state and local resources through the equalization aid formula so that the school property tax burden would be spread fairly.

1973 — A complete tax base equalization program is enacted that provides a much higher appropriation of equalization aid to relieve local property taxes; discontinues general flat aids; institutes a power equalizing program providing for «negative aids»; and separates the shared cost into primary and secondary levels with a two - level system of state aid in which school costs which exceed the statutory ceiling of aidable costs are supported at a lower level of state aid to serve as a disincentive to high levels of spending.

To address this wealth disparity problem, the state uses an equalization aid formula to calculate financial aid to school districts.

One of those formulas, the Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula — the state's main education equalization aid grant — hasn't been faithfully used in years and has left communities and districts with a system of unpredictable block grants.

That means either much more state aid via a foundation guarantee or some form of negative equalization.