Sentences with phrase «state spends per pupil»

Both those sums fall well below the roughly $ 8,000 a year the state spends per pupil in traditional public schools.

Changes in real state spending per pupil are uncorrelated with changes in 4th - grade student achievement in reading.

Not exact matches

This year the state returns to more familiar territory, with some of the nation's largest class sizes, near the lowest per - pupil spending and a finish in the bottom tier for the category.

The education tax paid by homeowners depends on a variety of factors, including the per - pupil spending in their local schools, the type of property (residential homestead or other) and the state - determined common level of appraisal (CLA).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo frequently points out, too, that New York spends the highest per pupil than virtually every state in the country.

New York's public schools spent $ 21,206 per pupil in the 2014 - 15 school year, topping all states and exceeding the national average by 86 percent, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today.

«New York public schools now spend more per pupil than any other state and 87 percent above the national average.»

New York schools already spend more per pupil than any state in the nation, at an average of $ 19,818, almost double the national average of $ 10,700.

«One year ago, with the promise of Education Tax Credits on the horizon, thousands of tuition - paying families were left out in the cold — excluded from a state budget that provides the nation's highest level of spending per pupil in public schools,» he said.

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.

Public elementary and secondary school spending in New York reached an all - time high of $ 20,600 per - pupil in 2013 - 14 school year, topping all states and exceeding the $ 11,009 per - pupil national average by 87 percent, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.

[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.]

The legislative leaders and the governor made some progress yesterday, reportedly reaching a deal on education that adds $ 300 million in additional spending to the $ 807 million boost Cuomo proposed, spends $ 340 million on pre-K — most of which is going to NYC — and also hikes per - pupil state aid for charter schools, though they would have to agree to be audited by the state comptroller.

In an email, a spokeswoman for Cuomo said, «The Governor is committed to enacting an aggressive reform agenda to fix New York's broken education system that spends more per pupil that any other state in the nation while condemning over 250,000 students to failing schools over the last decade.»

Spending per pupil and district wealth are for the 2008 - 09 school year, the most recent data available from the state.

Spending per pupil West Genesee: $ 13,854 Syosset: $ 25,990 Proposed state aid for 2011 - 12 West Genesee: $ 23.9 million Syosset: $ 9.5 million

«Governor Cuomo, when he's speaking about education funding, he always talks about the average spending per pupil in New York State being the highest of anywhere in the country.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Milne has unveiled an ambitious plan to cut per - pupil public school spending in Vermont by a third, and use the savings to pay for the state's young people to attend a Vermont college.

In fact, the state has long ranked first in the nation for the amount it spends per pupil at $ 21,206.

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.

Cuomo during an appearance on «The Brian Lehrer Show» on WNYC public radio said the state spends the most in the country on school funding and twice the national average per pupil.

New York State currently spends more per pupil than any state in the nation, at an average of $ 19,818, almost double the national average of $ 10State currently spends more per pupil than any state in the nation, at an average of $ 19,818, almost double the national average of $ 10state in the nation, at an average of $ 19,818, almost double the national average of $ 10,700.

Over the last 15 years, spending on education in New York has more than doubled, from $ 28 billion to $ 58 billion, and we spend more per pupil than any other state in the nation, yet our students remain in the bottom half when it comes to results.

«New York today spends more per pupil than any other state in the nation — $ 19,552 — nearly double the national average of $ 10,608 per pupil.

More to the point, says the Empire Center, «School spending in New York [state] was driven primarily by instructional salaries and benefits — which, at $ 14,769 per pupil, were 114 percent above the national average of $ 6,903, the census data show.»

To measure a state's investment behavior, the researchers used state statistics for spending on state parks, pre-kindergarten education, highways and per - pupil education.

Districts, of course, can also seek operating levies from local taxpayers to boost revenues beyond what the state affords them, while charters depend entirely on state and federal per - pupil allocations and whatever they can raise from philanthropy (see Figure 1 for current spending estimates).

West Virginia, of all places, gets the highest grade here — a straight A — as it reportedly spent $ 8,322 per pupil on public education in 1999 and has been boosting its outlays faster than any other state and digging deeper than all but one.

States also receive lower scores for restrictions on the scholarship sizes below the lower of either $ 10,000 or parity with public school spending per pupil.

For the first time in state history, the law sets a minimum per - pupil spending level, which will be $ 4,100 this school year.

In response to lawsuits that identified large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school - finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many state legislatures implemented reforms that led to major changes in school funding.

Likewise, West Virginia fares better than Connecticut because it is poorer; if both states spend exactly the same per pupil, West Virginia naturally winds up devoting more of its per - capita income to education.

Additional charts illustrate changes in state per - pupil spending from 1969 - 70 to 2009 - 10 in inflation - adjusted dollars.

Thousands of teachers will head to the state capital on Wednesday to call for a nearly $ 10,000 raise over four years and an increase to per - pupil spending.

Per - pupil school spending has skyrocketed since the 1960s — as have the disparities among states.

Since the War on Poverty, the average gap in per - pupil spending between two states grew by 256 percent, an Education Week analysis finds.

In states that passed SFRs, low - spending districts initially experienced greater increases in per - pupil spending than similar districts in nonreform states, while high - spending districts experienced decreases.

Most SFRs changed spending formulas to reduce differences in per - pupil spending across districts within a state.

In response to large within - state differences in per - pupil spending across wealthy / high - income and poor districts, state supreme courts overturned school finance systems in 28 states between 1971 and 2010, and many states implemented legislative reforms that spawned important changes in public education funding.

Spending: Connecticut spends well above the national average of $ 7,734 per pupil, ranking sixth among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with an expenditure of $ 9,188 in the 2001 - 02 school year.

Almost 97 percent of students in the state are in districts that spend at least the national per - pupil average.

The state has a coefficient of variation of 10 percent, indicating moderate disparities in per - pupil spending across districts.

Second, though states have shouldered some responsibility for financing public education, usually by decreeing a minimum or «foundation» level of per - pupil spending, sizable portions of education revenue are locally generated through property taxes, bond levies, and such.

In Washington State and New Mexico, districts with student enrollments between 100 and 1,200 spend $ 104 million and $ 69 million more, respectively, in total public funds than if they were spending the statewide average per pupil in these districts.

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.

In states like California and Georgia, smaller districts receive a subsidy of 15 percent or more of the average per - pupil spending levels in their larger - district peers.

The state's showing indicates that, compared with other states, West Virginia has few differences in education spending per pupil across districts.

In Massachusetts, charter school students take with them the per - pupil net school spending (state and local) from their sending districts.

As a result of the New Jersey Supreme Court's 1998 Abbott v. Burke ruling, per - pupil spending in some of the state's poorest districts, known as the Abbott districts, increased more than 41 percent from 1996 to 2003.

That figure still falls below the national average, but almost 29 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts that spend at least the national average per pupil.