Sentences with phrase «system spends per pupil»

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.

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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.»

Massachusetts's progressive school - finance system, the product of reforms made in 1993, begins by establishing a minimum per - pupil spending figure - the foundation budget - that accords low - income children a premium of about 42 percent over that allotted other children.

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.

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.

But Nevada is first on that indicator only because 69 percent of its students attend the Clark County school system, which has one of the lowest per - pupil spending rates in Nevada, at $ 5,215 — the same as the statewide median.

The school system has increased the amount of money it spends per pupil and offers incentives to experienced teachers to encourage them to teach in schools with lower - performing students.

New York spends more per pupil on its education system than any other state.

Meanwhile, per - pupil spending reached $ 13,355 in 2002 - 03, compared with a national average of less than $ 10,000 a year, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics, although, unlike other school systems, the District figures include the equivalent of both state - level and local education spending.

Some of the lowest - performing urban public - school systems are also those that spend the most money per pupil — but despite Catholic schools» record of helping disadvantaged students learn, and despite their desperate need for financial resources, these institutions are denied any direct public support.

If MA is a good sport, they would fight left handed - what chance does a majority - minority school system with half the spending per pupil have against the highest performing state education system in the nation many years running?

While it is certainly true that adequate spending is necessary to sustain the public school system, it is not true that per pupil spending is a major determinative factor in improving test scores.

In a perfectly equitable system, the weighted per pupil spending would be even across all schools in the system.

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.)

«Even in the school systems that get the most support from their local government, resources are stretched and overall the state's per pupil spending still lags compared to the national average.»

This enables scholarship organizations to work with families and schools to determine the amount necessary to finance a child's education, an amount usually far lower than government per - pupil spending or even many set voucher amounts; the average tuition at private schools is about half what is spent per pupil in the public system.

Our paper then turns to the topic at hand — the demand for a quality public education system and the willingness to pay for it — before presenting our seminal state - by - state analysis of the correlation between a strong middle class and spending on public education per pupil.

Our system is cost effective at under # 40 per pupil per year and means no more storing, purchasing or time spent lesson planning.

The study estimates the impact of overturning a state's school finance system and finds that, seven years after reform, a state's highest poverty quartile experienced a 4 to 12 percent increase in per pupil spending and a 5 to 8 percentage point increase in graduation rates.

They will argue, as they always do, that our education system is not broken — despite the fact that it performs at the same level as the Slovak Republic where the government spends half as much per pupil, and the GDP is 171 times smaller.

This Center for American Progress report examines school funding inequality from multiple angles, and identifies stealth inequities in school finance, which are defined as often - overlooked features of school funding systems that tend to exacerbate inequities in per - pupil spending rather than reduce them.

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