Sentences with phrase «while per pupil»

North Carolina's average teacher pay, which just exceeds $ 50,000, is about $ 9,600 short of the national average, while per pupil spending lags the national average by about $ 2,400 per student.

While per pupil revenue covers the majority of our expenses related to delivery of the academic program, additional money must be raised to provide the support services needed to effectively serve pregnant and parenting teens and their children.

Not exact matches

Just 20 per cent of respondents said they agreed that new state - funded state schools should be allowed to select up to 100 per cent of their pupils on the basis of faith while 79 per cent of Anglicans opposed the new selection proposals.

The Southern Tier grows by $ 211 per pupil, nearly double the statewide average, while the Capital region grows by $ 142.

Per - pupil funding levels should be adequate across all programs and settings — both school districts and community based organizations — in order to support high - quality pre-k for 3 - and 4 - year - olds, and the state should establish a timeline for ensuring adequate resources while expanding access to all eligible children, particularly in high - need communities.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

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.»

Under Cuomo's plan, West Genesee would get $ 4,730 per pupil, while Syosset would get $ 1,418.

So - called high needs schools will be able to raise a maximum of $ 10 more per pupil, while wealthy or low needs schools can raise up to $ 27 per student, under the cap.

«If Dayton schools were in great shape, I would say it's less complicated than it is,» he said, noting that the district spends more than $ 14,000 per pupil, while Immaculate spends under $ 5,000.

The YouGov survey found that 43 per cent of the teachers questioned believed the premium had been effective in improving outcomes for poor pupils, while 19 per cent of respondents said they did not know.

Districts, of course, can also seek operating levies from local taxpayers to boost revenues beyond what the state affords them, while charters depend entirely on state and federal per - pupil allocations and whatever they can raise from philanthropy (see Figure 1 for current spending estimates).

We asked half of our sample whether they would like to see funding for schools in their district increase, decrease, or remain the same, while we told the other half the current per - pupil spending in their district before we asked that question.

Figures show 55 per cent of pupils in mixed schools achieved five good GCSEs including English and maths, while single - sex schools maintained a higher proportion with 75 per cent of pupils getting the same results.

As the country with the second highest number, The Netherlands sits far more comfortably with 18.0, while pupils in Lithuania should theoretically have the most attention, with just 8.1 per teacher.

In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500 respondents who do not run any form of home access programme said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst schools already running a programme.

We find that when a district increases per - pupil school spending by $ 100 due to reforms, spending on instruction increases by about $ 70, spending on support services increases by roughly $ 40, spending on capital increases by about $ 10, while there are reductions in other kinds of school spending, on average.

Schools with 16 pupils or fewer will receive # 1000 per pupil, while those with 17 or more eligible pupils will receive # 16,000 with an additional # 10 payment per pupil.

In 2014, the number of wealthiest students who achieved three or more As increased to 21.13 per cent, while the number of poorer pupils saw a much smaller jump to 2.99 per cent.

In states that passed SFRs, low - spending districts initially experienced greater increases in per - pupil spending than similar districts in nonreform states, while high - spending districts experienced decreases.

While we find only small effects for children from nonpoor families, for low - income children, a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending each year for all 12 years of public school is associated with roughly 0.5 additional years of completed education, 9.6 percent higher wages, and a 6.1 - percentage - point reduction in the annual incidence of adult poverty.

Edgewood adopted the highest tax rate in the area but yielded the least funding for its schools, while Alamo Heights adopted a substantially lower tax rate that yielded considerably more per - pupil funding.

It is possible that people formulated better answers to this question because they used their own pay (or that of a family member) as benchmarks, while they lacked as much context on the per - pupil spending item.

Houston ranged between 0.2 and 0.25, except for one year, while Dallas had the highest levels of inequality, hovering around 0.3 until the 2000 — 01 school year, when it experienced a dramatic drop in the level of inequality in the district, indicating that a greater percentage of schools were funded at or near the district's average allocation per pupil.

The WSI allows us to compare per - pupil funding in schools while accounting for the types of students a school serves.

While the overall number of teachers has kept pace with changing pupil numbers, the NAO reported that 54 per cent of school leaders in areas with large proportions of disadvantaged pupils find attracting and keeping good teachers is «a major problem».

While through 2011, Detroit's school spending was on a par with similar cities (see Figure 3), charter schools in the city and statewide have received considerably less funding per pupil than district schools.

Twenty - two per cent of education staff believes that pupils have been subjected to hate crime or hate speech while at school in the last academic year.

The figures found that the average local authority maintained school had 55 per cent of pupils achieving 5 + A * - C grades in GCSEs, while free schools had 50.5 per cent of pupils achieving the same result.

But just four per cent of all teachers cited pupil feedback as a priority while one per cent said peer - to - peer tutoring.

In Buffalo, charter schools receive $ 9,800 less per pupil than traditional public schools, while in Rochester the gap is $ 6,600.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

In an ambitious study that seeks to examine state education spending down to the school level, a new analysis of K - 12 expenses in Wyoming shows that while per - pupil spending has swelled to one of the highest rates in the country, schools devoted a significant portion of their money to raising teacher salaries rather than hiring more educators.

While annual per - pupil expenditures run around $ 12,500, Hispanics, on average, estimate their cost at less than $ 5,000.

While this is an oversimplification, the Department's proposed rule would require districts to spend roughly equal amounts of state and local revenue per pupil in Title I and non-Title I schools.

While Iowa lawmakers raised per - pupil funding for schools, widespread declines in enrollment mean that most of the Hawkeye State's school districts will receive few of those new dollars.

On the issue of self - harm, The Key's report demonstrates that while more than a third (38 per cent) of school leaders in London saw incidents increase among pupils over the past two years, more than half (54 per cent) of leaders in the north west said the same.

The figures outlined that 45 per cent of respondents claimed teachers are more likely to contribute financially towards providing classroom resources than previously, while 21 per cent maintain funding cuts will lead to fewer activities available to pupils.

While the decrease was modest (33.3 per cent of pupils overweight or obese in 2012 - 13, down from 33.9 per cent the previous year), it is nonetheless a sign that current campaigns are making progress.

For example, in District 2, average spending across high schools on AP courses was $ 1,660 per pupil per course, while spending on regular courses averaged $ 739 per pupil and spending on remedial courses averaged $ 713 per pupil (see Figure 3).

«At a time when pupil numbers in England are predicted to rise by 8 per cent over the next five years while budgets are simultaneously cut, it is now more important than ever that we support our existing teachers and offer them a fair deal in terms of remuneration.»

94 per cent of pupils made at least two Levels of progress in writing, which represents a four per cent increase from 2012, while 92 per cent made two Levels of progress in reading, which represents a two per cent increase compared to 2012.

And it produces these benefits while decreasing the total resources devoted to education, as measured by cumulative educational spending per pupil.»

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.

The pupils can have fun while learning french grammar, conjugation, vocabulary, tenses, etc... You can make them play in teams (two per computer or two kids reprensenting a team on the interactive board) to make the game more challenging and exciting.

Of the schools surveyed between April and July this year, 83 per cent said that participation in extracurricular sporting activities had gone up, while over 90 per cent reported better behaviour and that pupils were fitter and healthier overall.

While the pupil population has grown by per cent in the last nine years, the rate of growth is projected to double to 10 per cent in the next nine years.

Know the risks We encourage school leaders and assessors to consider the real risks; is it appropriate for a school to close due to 75 mm of snow on the playground, when all teaching staff and parents know full well that 80 per cent of the pupils will take the day free to go sledging and snowballing while carers will have to take an enforced days leave of work, or other planned activities?

School inspectorate Ofsted warned last year that the number of new teachers had fallen by 16 per cent over five years, while pupil numbers are heading for a 50 - year peak in 2023.

We encourage school leaders and assessors to consider the real risks, is it appropriate for a school to close due to 75 mm of snow on the playground, when all teaching staff and parents know full well that 80 per cent of the pupils will take the free day to go sledging and snowballing while carers will have to take an enforced days leave of work, or other planned activities (and hopefully go sledging and snowballing with the kids).