Sentences with phrase «whether public school spending»

Since the Coleman Report, many have questioned whether public school spending affects student outcomes.

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Under it, he said, educational officials trying to evaluate standards at yeshivas would be asked to consider the number of hours spent studying all topics, including religious studies, in determining whether such an education was «substantially equivalent» to secular public schools.

States must also meet several other conditions, including: 1) working with the public schools to define the academic and social skills that five - year - olds must possess in order to succeed in kindergarten; 2) developing preschool activities and materials that help poor children acquire these skills; 3) outlining an accountability program for determining whether four - year - olds are learning these skills; 4) maintaining state spending on preschool programs; and 5) continuing to provide comprehensive services.

It is unclear how widespread this disproportionate spending is among U.S. high schools, but it raises the question of whether our spending in public education is consistent with our academic goals.

Coverdell ESA funds can be spent on K - 12 or higher education, whether public or private schools.

Even after 2006, charter schools in California continue to operate year in and year out without regulator - level audits that are designed specifically to determine whether the public dollars funding these privately managed schools are being spent properly.

When asked whether they were confident that the money would be spent wisely, 53 % of all adults and 57 % of the parents of public school students answered affirmatively.

The report evaluated the 50 U.S. states on four fairness measures: per - pupil funding levels; funding distribution (whether a state provides more or less funding to schools on the basis of their poverty concentration); effort (differences in state spending relative to the state's fiscal capacity); and coverage (the proportion of children in public schools and the income ratio of private and public school families).

While the Office has audited fewer than half of all charter schools, they have exposed some form of internal control deficiency or mismanagement in 95 percent of their audits.5 The majority of charter schools in New York are left to operate year in and year out without regulator - level audits, specifically audits that are designed to determine whether these publicly funded, privately managed schools are spending public dollars properly.

The members, all 79 returning lawmakers and 25 newly elected ones, must figure out how to make the $ 13 billion - plus budget balance and whether and how to significantly boost spending for jampacked public schools.

Craig Horn knows many education advocates want the school finance task force he co-chairs to weigh whether North Carolina spends enough on its public schools.

Ongoing public debate about whether the United States, specific states, and local communities spend too much or too little on education and whether those dollars are spent correctly can be traced through the case law history associated with various school finance law suits.

Like the Education Next survey, the Friedman survey asked respondents whether they thought public school spending was too high, about right, or too low, after first randomly assigning the respondents into two groups: one that first heard a prompt explaining that the average U.S. public school spends $ 10,658 per pupil (this is average operating expenditure per pupil), while the other group was not given any prompt.