Sentences with phrase «total school spending»

That's a losing strategy, given that special education spending has grown from 4 percent to 21 percent of total school spending between 1970 and 2005.

The overall Medicaid budget not only increased faster, but at some point in the last few years surpassed total school spending for the first time in New York history.

Indeed, one concern over the efficacy of court - induced reforms is that local districts may reduce their own contribution to the schools in response to increases in state aid, thereby undermining efforts to increase total school spending.

Around two - thirds of local school districts are funded by the state; if the state has to reduce that aid, districts have the ability to make up the difference by raising dreaded property taxes — which is why, despite districts» constant complaints about «cuts,» total school spending rose 12.7 percent between 2006 and 2010.

I was surprised to discover that, relative to the vast public expenditures on K — 12 education, philanthropic contributions were remarkably small — amounting to about one - third of 1 percent of total school spending.

that the state's total school spending would need to increase by $ 1.7 billion, a modest 2.7 percent, in order for

And total school spending ($ 64.8 billion) was greater than the entire current state budgets of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined ($ 59.5 billion).

While instructional spending makes up about 60 percent and support services make up about 30 percent of all total school spending, the two categories account for about 70 percent and 40 percent of the marginal increase, respectively.

In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie had the audacity to cut state funding for schools, reductions that amounted to some 5 percent of total school spending, with the most disadvantaged districts being shielded from the brunt of the cuts.

Even after adjusting for inflation and rising student enrollment, total school spending is up.