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Chambers, Jay G.; Brodziak, Iliana; Levin, Jesse; Cruz, Lisa – Strategic School Funding for Results, 2011
This Analysis Brief shows how per-pupil spending varies with student poverty (as measured by the percent of students eligible for free or reduced price lunch) across elementary, middle, and high schools in Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD). The authors have carried out separate analyses that make use of the California Standardized Account…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation, Strategic Planning
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2012
In spring of 2012, the Idaho Charter School Network, the Colorado League of Charter Schools, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools worked to collect evidence that would accurately portray both the adequacy of charter school facilities and the average spending for facilities out of charter schools' operating budgets in Idaho.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Educational Facilities, Geographic Location
Group of Eight (NJ1), 2012
Over the period 2001-2011, the number of applications for university places increased by 17.8%, or just over 37,000. At the same time, the number of offers increased faster in percentage terms (20.5%), while absolute growth was slightly smaller at just under 35,000. As demand for higher education has grown, there has been a trend towards Science,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Demand, Educational Trends, Enrollment Trends
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, US Department of Education, 2017
The purpose of the United States Department of Education's (the Department) Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 "Agency Financial Report" (AFR) is to inform Congress, the President, other external stakeholders, and the American people on how the Department used the federal resources entrusted to it to promote student achievement and preparation for…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Departments of Education, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Training, 2010
Now in its 29th year, The Industry Report is recognized as the training industry's most trusted source of data on budgets, staffing, and programs. This year, the study was conducted by an outside research firm in June-August 2010, when members from the "Training" magazine database were e-mailed an invitation to participate in an online…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Program Budgeting, Resource Allocation, Training Methods
Tallman, Mark – Kansas Association of School Boards (NJ1), 2012
Kansas school districts reduced employment by 327 full-time equivalent positions this school year, the smallest reduction in three years of cuts to district operating budgets. Districts reduced positions by 561 in FY 2010 and 1,626 in FY 2011. Districts eliminated nearly 400 "regular" teaching positions this year, but added 114 special…
Descriptors: School Districts, Special Education Teachers, Special Education, Paraprofessional Personnel
Training, 2012
The best learning and development organizations support business initiatives tactically "and" help drive strategic change. Verizon did just that, earning it the No. 1 spot for the first time on the Training Top 125. Verizon and the other 2012 Top 125 winners continued to invest in training, collectively dedicating a mean of 4.52 percent of their…
Descriptors: Training, Leadership, Tuition, Labor Force Development
North Dakota University System, 2009
The 2009-10 operating budget for the North Dakota University System is over $1 billion. Approximately 29 percent of operations are supported by the state general fund. The remainder of the operations of the University System are self-supporting through tuition and fees, room and board charges paid by students, and private and federal research…
Descriptors: State Colleges, Budgets, State Aid, Financial Support
Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports that the Higher Education Price Index (HEPI), a widely used measure of colleges' costs, rose by 3.6 percent for the 2008 fiscal year, which ended on June 30. But even as they reported the good news of that moderate increase, experts at the Commonfund Institute who maintain the index noted that broader economic trends could…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Cost Indexes, Operating Expenses, Consumer Economics
Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Faculty pay is a big part of college budgets, but it is not what has driven tuition increases. In this article, the author talks about faculty pay and examines why it is accounted for large increases in college tuition. According to the 2004 American Association of University Professors report that although faculty and staff salary increases…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Tuition, Educational Finance, Etiology
Bidin, Zainin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research examines the financial profiles of 550 public school districts in Michigan and highlights the association between school district fund balance and the following eleven indicators: enrollment, percent enrollment change, percent of students receive free and reduced lunch (FRL), percent of special education students, percent of English…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Correlation, Educational Finance
Florida Department of Education, 2015
This 2015 fact book for the Florida College System is divided into the following categories: (1) Student Information, which includes fall, annual, FTE, and program enrollment statistics, as well as credit program completion statistics; (2) Employee Information, which includes statistics regarding employee headcount by occupational activity, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Colleges, Enrollment
Nechvoglod, Lisa; Karmel, Tom; Saunders, John – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
This report examines the costs that both employers and apprentices incur for undertaking training in the plumbing and electrical industries. The importance of understanding costs is fundamental. Employers will not take on apprentices if the cost is too high, and prospective apprentices will not undertake an apprenticeship if the future benefits…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Plumbing, Electrical Occupations, Operating Expenses
Dow, Daphne, Comp. – University of North Carolina General Administration, 2013
This abstract covers the breadth of higher education activities in North Carolina in their quantitative aspect, from simple counts of enrollment and degrees conferred to complex analyses of the flow of student transfers among institutions. Collected and published annually, this wide range of information should be useful to members of the public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment Trends, Undergraduate Students, College Transfer Students
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2013
The State University System of Florida has developed three tools that aid in guiding the System's future: (1) The Board of Governors' new "Strategic Plan 2012-2025" is driven by goals and associated metrics that stake out where the System is headed; (2) The Board's "Annual Accountability Report" provides yearly tracking for how…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Institutional Mission, Institutional Characteristics, Goal Orientation
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