Word: pupills
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...passive and get ignored. So money's a problem? At the Sorbonne, which is a literary university and gets less funding than scientific ones do, our annual costs come to about €3,300 per student - that's less than France pays on average for a nursery-school pupil. At Princeton it's €110,000 per year. But there are structural issues, too. We have to raise the academic level at the universities, lower the number of students in nonscientific courses, and increase the number in shorter and more technical programs. The French seem to think a career choice...
...Cambridge’s rank among all Massachusetts school districts in overall per-pupil spending for the 2004 fiscal year, the most recent period for which comparative data is available. The city’s per-pupil spending totalled $16,116, compared to a state average...
...says that Cambridge enjoys “unbelievable resources”—two large research universities, an active parent group, and a very large per-pupil budget. The city spent about $13,400 per regular education student last fiscal year, $6,000 above the statewide average...
...according to a recent study by Nationwide Insurance and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. And teacher sexual misconduct can also be a problem. A Tennessee high school set an age limit at the prom this year after a former teacher who had gone to prison for having sex with a pupil was rearrested for contacting the boy again. A Texas teacher was fired after asking to take a student to the prom...
...kindergarten that the political activism of her undergraduate days and her business training combined.“I look at the numbers, and I say ‘what is going on here?’” Nolan says referring to the mismatch between the spending per pupil at CPS and its achievement scores. CPS spent an average of $13,363 per regular-education student last fiscal year, about $5,000 more than the national average. According to school officials, those numbers have risen to over $16,000 for this fiscal year. But despite this spending, Cambridge placed...