Winners and Losers: How Much Schools Will Get Under New Law
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Under the formula, some school districts will get more aid from the state. Many will receive less. How much districts will get is based on a rate of $8,295 a student. For students in low-income communities, however, the rate is higher—$11,600.
Multiplying the relevant rate by the number of students, to figure out the total cost of education local students. The state then decides how much it will contribute to the total cost depending on how wealthy or poor a community is - based on median household income and property values.
Below is a listing of all the school districts in the state and how much they will receive.
The column on the left shows the total amount the districts will get from the state—that will be phased in over five to ten years. The middle column lists the amounts of aid they have this year. The column on the right is the difference between current and proposed funding. Numbers with a parenthesis are cuts in funding.
Will your school district be getting more or less money from the state under the new law?
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Comments:
ed curtis
7:04am on Tuesday, June 08, 2010
"How much districts will get is based on a rate of $8,295 a student. For students in low-income communities, however, the rate is higher—$11,600."
That information is eye opening!
Karina Wood
11:00am on Tuesday, June 08, 2010
This information is not quite right: the RI Dept of Education's funding formula proposal would give each student who qualifies for free or reduced price lunch (a poverty indicator) an additional 40% of funding on top of the base per pupil amount of $8,295. Not every student who attends school in a low income community would receive the additional funds, only those students who are poor as measured by their free or reduced lunch qualification.
Bruce Ciummo
4:44pm on Tuesday, June 08, 2010
All this is re-arranging the deck furniture on the Titanic. Any program that does not have a voucher feature that give the parents the ability to choose where their child goes to school will continue to fail. When do we stop throw money down the pit and get serious about fixing public education. The only true way to erase poverty.