Sentences with phrase «state money per pupil»

The truth is that the school gets superior results with the same or slightly bigger class sizes and less state money per pupil.

Not exact matches

«The truth is that New York dedicates more money per pupil to education than any other state — including over $ 25.8 billion in this year's budget,» Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, said in a statement, «and we'll continue to work to strengthen our public schools and provide New York children with the education they deserve.»

[Cuomo said the latest lawsuit challenging the way New York allocates education dollars is flawed because the state spends more money per pupil — on average — than any other state and doesn't get top results.]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pushed the evaluations as a key strategy for improving student outcomes, which are mediocre despite that New York spends more money per pupil than any other state.

Rosemary Serra, president of the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women, said New York invested more money per pupil in education than most states, but still had a below average graduation rate.

Dianne Payne leaves the Tweed Courthouse in Manhattan after asking a judge to force the state to pay the same amount of money that the New York City system spends per pupil for two of her children to attend private school.

A study of 49 states by The Education Trust found that school districts with high numbers of low - income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per pupil than school districts with few poor and minority children.

In an ambitious study that seeks to examine state education spending down to the school level, a new analysis of K - 12 expenses in Wyoming shows that while per - pupil spending has swelled to one of the highest rates in the country, schools devoted a significant portion of their money to raising teacher salaries rather than hiring more educators.

The money will go toward a 4.6 percent increase in state per - pupil...

In 2011, the most recent year with data available, Austria, Luxembourg, Norway, and Switzerland spent more money per pupil on education than the United States, but those countries aside, the US spent more than most of the developed world.

The Governor Malloy and state lawmakers put together a budget that fulfills most of the promises made in last year's education reform law by increasing per - pupil funding and allocating more money for new charter schools.

She neglects to tell you that the per - pupil spending in Bridgeport consists of both the state ECS allocation and the money it derives from the local taxpayers.

The charter schools model offers a community a way to create a school that often has lower operating costs than traditional schools — particularly for employee compensation — and greater flexibility in class offerings, all funded with federal start - up money and a large portion of the annual per - pupil payment from the state for public school students.

Zimmer identified three factors pushing the district toward the financial abyss: the federal government's reneging on promises of more money for special education students, creating a $ 200 million shortfall for the district; the state's «extremely low» per - pupil funding level and the district's steady decline in enrollment.

The plan would cut Walker's proposed per - pupil funding increase and target more money to school districts that spend less than most others, according to a Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo prepared for Nygren and obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.

The state's 2013 charter school law allows charters to receive money from the school district where they are located and from Mississippi Department of Education per - pupil funds.

Where Ritz would get the money is unclear, as she argued she can direct per - pupil aid, special education money and federal grants based only on directives in state or federal law.

MPS will lobby the state legislature to distribute the per - pupil allocation of funds and other school monies based on updated enrollment counts.

* In most states, charter school districts reported spending less money per pupil than traditional public schools on instruction, student support services and teacher salaries.

They want the state to invest more money into the state per pupil expenditure.

That half a million dollars will be made up by the $ 50 - per - pupil increase in state aid negotiated by Gov. Mark Dayton, even if it is money most taxpayers would rather not be handing to the bonds issuers.

Their analysis showed that as a group, many charter schools already receive more money per pupil than local schools when comparing state and local funding.

If it adopts that system when it draws up its budget next year, the February 2013 number could become useful for the state as they dole out per - pupil money.)

Under House Bill 471, federal and per - pupil state funding would be allocated to charter schools just as it would any other public schools, but locally - raised money, such as property tax revenue, would not.

It doesn't stand to «make money» off of Malloy's reforms; in fact, Malloy's reforms will raise the per - pupil state funding amount for charter school students so that it will be equal with the per - pupil state funding amount for traditional public school students.

ConnCAN has focused its energy on opening charter schools and a «money follows the child» scheme to make school districts give charters the state average per - pupil funding for each charter student.

Meanwhile, school and local elected officials, including Walsh, have been calling on the state to change the way it funds charter schools, saying the current method of redirecting per - pupil education aid to charters is robbing traditional schools of the money they need to thrive.

Charters are attracted to the city because of money — the school district receives $ 7,686 per pupil from the state this year.