(It's likely that the shift would have been even more pronounced had the Friedman Foundation cited the higher
total per pupil expenditures in the prompt rather than the partial figure.
According to the latest National Center for Education Statistics data, the average
total per pupil expenditure in U.S. public schools was $ 12,136 in the 2009 - 10 school year.
[Update: An earlier version of this post incorrectly labeled
total per pupil expenditures as operating per pupil expenditures.]
Average tuition actually paid: $ 11,627 Median tuition actually paid: $ 10,043 Estimated average
total per pupil spending: $ 14,534 Estimated median
total per pupil spending: $ 12,534
To estimate
the total per pupil spending in DC area private schools, I began by entering the tuition data from the Washingtonian's 2007 - 08 Guide to Private Schools into a spreadsheet, eliminating boarding - only and pre-school-only institutions.
So the average
total per pupil spending in DC area private schools, some of the most elite private schools in the entire nation, is about $ 10,000 less than the comparable figure for DC public schools.
We are assuming this means
the total per pupil funding rather than the basic entitlement (as it feels like the latter would cost too much).
Kentucky's Department of Education provides more than ten years of Annual Financial Receipts and Expenditures reports, which contain
total per pupil expenditure data.
[Update: An earlier version of this post omitted Virginia from the list of states adopting STC programs since 2010 and incorrectly labeled
total per pupil expenditures as operating per pupil expenditures.]
(Note that the National Center for Education Statistics» calculation of
total per pupil expenditures excludes unfunded pension liabilities.
In comparison to
total per pupil current expenditures of about $ 11,600, employer pension costs represent a significant drain on resources that might otherwise have been available for classroom expenditures.
Not exact matches
The number of Key Stage 1 classes reported as unlawfully having more than 30
pupils on the census day was 310 (from a
total of 54,790 classes), 0.6
per cent of all Key Stage 1 classes, up from 0.3
per cent in January 2010.
The number of Key Stage 1 classes reported as having more than 30
pupils, but which met legal requirements (which allow infant classes of more than 30 in very limited circumstances) on the census day was 1,060 (from a
total of 54,790 classes), 1.9
per cent of all Key Stage 1 classes, up from 1.6
per cent in January 2010.
Tkaczyk's assertions were in line with Superintendent Seth Turner's presentation to the board at the December meeting, during which business administrator Lissa Jilek said the gap elimination adjustment has cost the district $ 11.7 million since 2010, an amount which is equal to 4.1 percent of the
total operating budget, and breaks down to over $ 800
per pupil.
«At the extremes, the
pupil premium in the local authority with the lowest
total funding
per pupil (Wokingham) is about two - and - a-half times greater than the value of the
pupil premium in the local authority with the highest level of funding
per pupil (Tower Hamlets).»
As a result, even as net district school funding decreases due to charter enrollment,
total per -
pupil funding effectively increases.
And second, Florida school districts lose only a fraction of their
per pupil funding when a child leaves (the state «FEFP» portion, which is roughly 2 / 3rds of the
total).
This program may yet lift the performance of our
pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's
total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56
per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82
per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.
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.
** 8 rounds of 12 / 15 questions giving 100 questions in
total Hand out style Choose the rounds you like and hand out one at a time (5 out of 8 rounds for a 1 hour lesson for example) or make a booklet of questions to last a series of tutor times (1/2 rounds
per tutor time), for example
Pupil answer grids provided, so you can re-use the quiz sheets Only 2 rounds out of 8 are explicitly linked to Easter, so you can use most of this at other times of the year too.
The BLS series discussed below allows us to calculate employer contributions for retirement as a percent of wages and salaries in public K - 12 schools and the NCES Digest of Education Statistics allows us to calculate
total salaries
per pupil.
As a result, MPS was no longer able to maintain
total revenues as it lost MPCP students, but could still maintain
per -
pupil revenues.
The
total revenue each district is allowed to raise from property taxes and general state aid is simply that
per -
pupil amount, multiplied by enrollment (smoothed by three - year averaging).
But MPS chose to maintain
total revenues, collecting $ 39.5 million more than would have been needed to maintain the
per -
pupil amount.
In addition, we control for district - level characteristics, including
total enrollment,
per -
pupil expenditures, and percentage of funding that comes from local, state, and federal sources.
In addition, the nature of the impact was left up to Milwaukee: it could choose to let the voucher money follow the child, accepting a net reduction in
total (but not
per -
pupil) MPS revenues.
Nevertheless, there are quantifiable differences: School - level spending
per pupil is higher, central - office staff comprises a higher percentage of
total CMO staff, and the share of central - office staff devoted to human resources is greater.
In this view, it would be justified to maintain
total revenues, despite falling enrollments, for a higher revenue
per pupil.
These higher property taxes no longer pay for the option of maintaining
total revenues as enrollments decline; instead, they are necessary to maintain
per -
pupil revenues.
The dramatic escalation of the federal government's revenue contribution, to close to 15 percent of education's national
total, almost guarantees that mean
per -
pupil revenues will not decline in 2010.
As a result,
total per -
pupil expenditures on education reached a near all - time high in the recession school year of 2009 — 10, climbing (in constant dollars) to $ 13,154 from a $ 12,520 level in 2005 — 06.
Balancing all these factors leads to the projections in Figure 5, which provide a bounded estimate of national
total operating revenues
per pupil through 2020.
The correlation between adjusted
per pupil spending and ID rates is 0.37 (and highly statistically significant), which means that the relationship can account for 13 percent of the
total variation in ID rates.
There have been 11 periods during which GDP declined but mean
total real
per -
pupil revenues still increased.
That said, the net increase of roughly $ 175
per student in
total funding for poor districts is fairly modest when compared to
total per -
pupil funding.
For each of these states, a
total fiscal gap can be estimated by multiplying the
per -
pupil gap by enrollment.
Although it has low
per -
pupil spending, Oklahoma devotes 3.9 percent of it
total taxable resources to education.
According to the Archdiocese of New York, average tuition in the city's Catholic schools, the city's largest private provider, was $ 1,728, which was 72 percent of the
total per -
pupil cost of $ 2,400 to educate a child at these schools.
The
total annual cost of the literacy hour was # 2.5 million (about # 2.8 million in 2001 prices), or # 25.52
per pupil in the participating schools.
Calling for a 1 percent increase in
per -
pupil funding, increasing
total state education aid by $ 24.5 million.
And it produces these benefits while decreasing the
total resources devoted to education, as measured by cumulative educational spending
per pupil.»
According to a report from the Colorado Department of Education, Colorado's average
per -
pupil expenditures
total $ 12,181, nearly double the misleading figure given by Gebhardt.
«It will mean that the
total schools budget will increase by # 2.6 bn between this year and 2019/20, and
per pupil funding will now be maintained in real terms for the remaining two years of the spending review period to 2019/20,» Ms Greening said.
The greatest taxpayer financial commitment, both in
total and on a
per pupil basis, goes to DCPS.
Total public school expenditures were about $ 6,500
per pupil in 1993 - 94.
For instance, since vouchers were introduced in Milwaukee in 1990, the school district's enrollment,
total funding, and
per -
pupil funding have all grown steadily.
According to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the average
total cost
per pupil was $ 13,692 in the 2009 - 10 school year, adjusted to 2012 dollars.
There are tabs for arithmetic and spellings scores (average scores
per pupil and
totals for the class are calculated), as well as end of year assessments.
For example, California, the country's largest and most financially distressed state, spends less than $ 14 out of its $ 8,955
per -
pupil total educational outlay on statewide standardized testing.
To calculate the primary
per pupil expenditure for the US at the 37 % mark, I multiplied
total education spending for primary school by 0.37 and divided that figure by the US» primary student population.