Sentences with phrase «student transportation costs»

We recently posted about the Department of Public Instruction's (DPI) announcement that it distributed $ 7.5 million in aid to districts with above - average student transportation costs last month through the High Cost Transportation Aid program.

Further study is needed on capital needs and funding for school districts and charter schools, high - needs poverty and student transportation costs.

HB 644 established the Charter School Transportation Grant Pilot Program to fund up to 65 percent of student transportation costs for charter schools where at least half of students qualify for federal free or reduced lunch.

Increased reimbursements for BOCES and student transportation costs would also be capped at 2 percent starting in the 2019 - 20 school year.

Not exact matches

The report said the low - cost student pass has helped halve average family transportation costs by $ 23 a month.

The traditional halls have the advantage of proximity to the lecture halls, which enables students to walk to lecture halls and library, whereas most of the private hostels are far from campus so students incur additional transportation cost.

Low - income students — who may already be eligible for federal Pell grants and state TAP grants — should be able to benefit from the program, such as through resources to cover costs including fees, transportation, child care and books that too often make college out of reach.

«In the summer of 2014, we had a large number of special ed [ucation] students move into our district that were not budgeted for, which caused us to expend more than half - a-million dollars in additional funds to cover the cost of these students» tuitions and additional transportation for those students,» says Burnell.

However, upon inquiries from the executives, they admitted that the said amount was used for other purposes including paying transportation cost for students who came down to vote.

This summer a new program will be implemented and provide free / low - cost transportation grants to allow students from Title 1 schools to experience state parks and historic sites.

The least poorly funded schools tend to be rural schools in low income rural areas with an insufficient local tax base to support them and with high costs associated with a lack of economies of scale and large transportation costs for students.

Many parents were angry at Mayor Bloomberg for boasting of saving millions of dollars in transportation costs during the strike that caused thousands of special - needs students to miss school and therapies they are entitled to by law.

It is possible that assigning students to schools with an eye to equalizing the socioeconomic, rather than the racial, mix across schools may confer benefits on children that outweigh any additional transportation costs.

This is precisely what the successful ASAP program achieved, nearly doubling graduation rates by not only covering students» direct costs, but also simplifying course scheduling, enhancing academic advising, and providing free public transportation to get students to class.

Georgia stretched the interpretation of a state law too far when it concluded in 1978 that it did not need to count students in the DeKalb County district's magnet school program and those in a voluntary - integration program when it calculated transportation costs to be paid to the district, Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane of Fulton County Superior Court said in a Sept....

The Lebanese government opened its public schools to Syrian students, but immense obstacles, including a language barrier, overcrowding, and the high cost of transportation, have made the transition a difficult one not only for students, but for teachers as well.

These respondents were told that «Individual student costs go toward teacher and administrator salaries, building construction and maintenance, extracurricular activities, transportation, etc.» With this prompt, we anticipated, respondents would have an easier time answering the question.

It has such programs for transportation, reimbursement for high - cost special education students, early - childhood education, literacy programs, kindergarten - development grants, support for students scoring low on state tests (the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System), and school construction assistance.

Their students must be allowed to transfer to a better school, with the school district paying the transportation costs.

That may strain transportation budgets, but students will graduate sooner, offsetting the costs.

Under the rules of the program as approved by the legislature last year, the families of handicapped students would have been obligated — like other participating families — to pay any transportation costs for their children to attend school in a district other than the one in which they lived.

, Paul Hill considers the question of whether or not charter schools are major factors in the national trend of greater separation of the races in schools, which is driven by racial isolation by neighborhood, population change (fewer white students), the cost of housing, and a transportation system that makes cross-town movement difficult.

Poverty poses a variety of barriers to participation for many students, such as the cost of fees, equipment or instruments, uniforms, and transportation home after participation.

«Free college might solve some problems like affordability, but we know [for] many students... the main cost they are facing is not tuition, it's how do they support themselves,» she says, noting living costs such as room and board, transportation, and child care.

When faced with soaring transportation costs and students on buses for as long as four hours each day, some rural school districts pared the fifth day of instruction into fourths and tacked this time onto the end of the remaining four weekdays, creating a four - day school week.

In reality, however, despite the areas in which year - round schooling cuts costs, it also incurs additional ones: administrative, utility, maintenance, transportation, and salary costs, and many enrichment opportunities occur during the traditional summer break, making them unavailable to students in year - round schools.

The Commission will examine factors that impact spending in education, including: school funding and distribution of State Aid; efficiency and utilization of education spending at the district level; the percentage of per - pupil funding that goes to the classroom as compared to administrative overhead and benefits; approaches to improving special education programs and outcomes while also reducing costs; identifying ways to reduce transportation costs; identifying strategies to create significant savings and long - term efficiencies; and analysis of district - by - district returns on educational investment and educational productivity to identify districts that have higher student outcomes per dollar spent, and those that do not.

Students can receive a scholarship worth up to $ 8,000 to cover the costs of private school tuition, fees, and transportation if it is provided by the private school.

The cost to grow and serve more students differs as well, with facility, transportation, and local labor costs varying greatly across our 31 communities.

Lastly, the National Education Association points out that moving students from public to private schools harms school districts because they can not reduce their fixed facilities and transportation costs in proportion to the number of students who leave.

Finally, cost remained a major barrier for low - income students even in the absence of tuition fees: many still struggled to afford necessary expenses for food, housing, books, and transportation.

Also, transportation costs can be extensive in counties where students need to be bused long distances.

Students will be responsible for transportation and food costs.

The question then becomes who is responsible for covering the cost of transportation of a student from the foster home to the school of origin.

As a result of this decision to retain these students, Connecticut taxpayers are now going to have to come up with another $ 100,000 or more considering the cost of the charter school grant, transportation costs and any other costs picked up by New Haven and the State of Connecticut.

The base per - pupil cost to educate a regular education K - 12 student in Michigan is $ 9,590, which does not include transportation, food service or capital costs, and only includes pension costs at 4.6 % of wages.

Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students, at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.

While consolidation may make sense for some districts, it could also lead to higher transportation costs and travel distances for students, especially in rural areas.

As the legislature deals with the need to provide fair funding for the common good, system components must be preserved, including recapture, school district - based adjustments (like small and sparse adjustment and cost of education index adjustments), weighted pupil funding for special population students (including compensatory education, bilingual education, special education, and gifted and talented), transportation and especially facilities.

For example, local businesses and civic leaders could offer scholarships for students to attend existing camps and summer programs that would otherwise be out of reach because of cost or transportation issues.

The District is a relatively small city and allows its students to ride Metrobus or Metrorail at no cost through the Kids Ride Free program, but does not offer public school transportation.

These figures further support the trend seen over the last few years of rising school transportation costs, reflecting additional expenditures many systems are incurring in busing a rapidly growing school - age population and more special - needs students.

The district cost is $ 19,000 a student, plus transportation and other related costs.

In addition, beyond the $ 4 million that the Bronx Charter School would collect directly, Stamford's property taxpayers would still have to pick up the tab for the transportation and special education costs of the students attending the Bronx charter school in their community.

Per pupil spending stands at $ 6,873, but costs previously not included, like transportation, have to be paid from that amount resulting in a net loss to students and education.

However, the charter review committee said many of the assumptions IMA made in crafting its budget, such as student enrollment projections and transportation costs, lack concrete support to back them up.

Plenty of work - study students have some help from parents on tuition, but still have other costs, like books and transportation, they need to cover alone.

Inadequate funding adds to factors such as high transportation costs, high costs for technology, and the expenses of having sparse student populations.

Additionally, students who can not afford transportation costs need free fares.

Crocker College Prep's contract with Hammond's Transportation cost $ 1,050 per student.