Friday, January 8, 2016

Let's look at "per-student spending state by state in the USA" -- to explain why Big Picture schools tend to be located in California and the Northeast USA.

http://www.techinsider.io/the-13-most-innovative-schools-in-the-world-2015-9

http://www.techinsider.io/the-13-most-innovative-schools-in-the-world-2015-9

http://tinyurl.com/bigpicturecharter
There are currently 53 Big Picture Learning schools in the USA.
In West Coast there are 13 Big Picture Learning schools
In the Northeast there are 19 Big Picture Learning schools
In the Southeast there is one Big Picture Learning school.  
The average per student in the West Coast ranges from 11,000 in Los Angeles to 12,000 in Seattle, WA.

The average per student in the Northeast ranges from 11,000 in Pennsylvania to over $20,000 in New York



Source of the Graph (showing large districts, all with more than 10,000 per student expenditures)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/05/23/the-dramatic-inequality-of-public-school-spending-in-america/

There are no Big Picture schools in Florida, Texas and Utah, where per-student outlays are below $8,000.

See the following quote from the Washington Post article:



Where are Big Picture Learning Schools?
By Region
Pacific Coast  13 schools




  • California   


  • Washington



  • Rocky Mountains  5 schools
  • Colorado


  • Idaho


  • Oklahoma



  • Midwest  3 schools
  • Indiana


  • Minnesota

  • Nevada




  • Southeast   1 school
  • Tennessee



  • Northeast   19 schools
  • Connecticut


  • Delaware

  • Massachusetts


  • New Jersey


  • New York

  • Pennsylvania


  • Rhode Island


  • Vermont

  • - See more at: http://www.bigpicture.org/category/schools/#sthash.Oaqew7KB.dpuf




    There appear to be other factors that combine with per-student expenditures to allow us to predict whether or not a state has a Big Picture Learning school.  Proximity to a state that has a big Picture School (Tennessee is near Indiana)  


    Per-student expenditures does not tell the entire story about revenue that charter schools receive.  Although Florida is listed as $9,223, the number that charters schools received in 2015 is closer to $5,500, with 10% given to the local district to cover “supervision” and evaluation of the school’s programs.

    A search of “ranking of per student spending in high school in USA state by state comparisons” reveals the following trends:

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    1. If your state is near a state with a Big Picture School, your state is more likely to have a Big Picture Learning school.
    2. If your state’s per-student expenditure in charter schools is above $9,000, then there is enough funding to support a Big Picture Learning school.


    Based on these two assumptions, we can expect North Carolina and perhaps Virginia or West Virginia to have a Big Picture School before Mississippi or Florida.

    Why has the Big Picture Learning model blossomed in two regions (Northeast and Pacific Coast)?   Why does the Southeast have only one Big Picture school?

    Per-student expenditures might explain why Big Picture schools tend to be located in California and the Northeast USA.

    Let’s look at the correlation between "per student spending" and "does that state have a Big Picture Learning School"?


    This document is found at tinyURL.com/BigPictureCharter


    References

    See which states spend the most, least per pupil on public ...

    www.deseretnews.com/.../See-which-states-spend-the-most-...Deseret News
    See which states spend the most, least per pupil on public education ... D.C.) rankingof public school system spending per pupil by state in fiscal year 2013 ... I used to think that low per pupil spending in Utah was all about the high ... and the per/pupilexpenditure would raise, taking us off the extreme bottom as we are now.

    Education Spending Per Student by State - Governing

    www.governing.com/.../state-education-spending-per-pupil-d...
    View spending on public elementary and secondary education per pupil. ... per pupiland elementary/secondary education revenues for each state. .... current spendingdata published in U.S. Census Bureau Annual Survey of School Systems.

    [PDF]Rankings of the States 2014 and Estimates of School ... - NEA

    https://www.nea.org/.../NEA_Rankings_And...
    National Education Association
    Estimates of School Statistics 2015 ..... Framework for Developing State Profiles andComparisons . .... Summary Table A. Estimated Number of Public Elementary andSecondary .... spending for education needs to be acknowledged as an investment in our nation's most .... Expenditures per Student: The U.S. average per.

    Here's how much each state spends on public school students

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../heres-how-much-...
    The Washington Post
    May 23, 2014 - (This map shows you how much teachers are paid state by state.) In addition, as Emily notes in her post, spending alone doesn't determine the quality of ...Nationwide, an average of $10,608 was spent per student in 2012. .... In treatment of professor, Wheaton shows split among US Evangelicals (+video).

    Additional Sources   http://tinyurl.com/bigpicturecharter

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