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Small Schools Volunteer Work
559 wordsAnother factor is the assessment value of property. Resort areas, retirement communities, and expensive second homes sit on land assessed at a higher value than agricultural land. In Vermont, for example, schools in districts with a large tax base, such as in a wealthy suburb or near a ski resort, may invest $ 11, 000 of state and local funds in each student every year and still have a relatively low tax levy. Residents in a poorer, neighboring urban or small-town district could tax themselves m...
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Inequalities In Public Education Funding
577 wordsInequalities of the public school funding in the United States had become one of the most important social issues. It is very significant to offer to all the people equal rights in education. However, there are many vivid examples of inadequate funding of public education in different cities across the nation. This paper is aimed to discuss and to research the inequalities of education funding in the state of New York and especially in the New York City. New York City can be described as the cit...
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Small Schools Learning Environment
1,008 wordsA COMPARISON OF SMALL SCHOOL AND BIG SCHOOL SIZE SETUPS Until the mid- 1960 s, there was considerable agreement among sociologists and educational reformers that a substantial part of the differences in school performance by different students could be attributed to differences in the quality of schools they attended. Not only did the argument seem intuitively obvious, it also had considerable impressionistic evidence to support it. Students who attended run-down inner city schools, often with i...
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Inequalities In Public Education Part 1
1,528 wordsInequalities in Public Education Funding Inequalities of the public school funding in the United States had become one of the most important social issues. It is very significant to offer to all the people equal rights in education. However, there are many vivid examples of inadequate funding of public education in different cities across the nation. This paper is aimed to discuss and to research the inequalities of education funding in the state of New York and especially in the New York City. ...
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Inequalities In Public Education Part 2
1,543 words... being more efficient. So why then there is still tendency towards closing small schools and building new and big ones? It is the responsibility of legislators to change this policy. However, the legislation can be the last option. Of the 22 cases in which small schools had sued states funding formulas, half have been decided for the plaintiffs and half for the defendants. In 11 cases that plaintiffs had won, only four resulted into actual increases in funding. All institutions that take care...
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