State aid and local property taxes are two ways to obtain this.
What is funding for education?
100
A system that places the local district board of education under some degree of jurisdiction by the city or county government.
What is a fiscally dependent district?
100
The entity that has a certain number of schools within a certain jurisdiction operating under the authority of a board of education voted by the people within that jurisdiction.
What is a local school district?
100
Once the leaders in efficiency and student achievement in recent years they suffered a decrease in adequate and equitable revenue due to the creation of more property tax exemptions.
What are urban schools?
100
“This is defined by the National Education Association as “the shifting of the delivery of services performed by public employees to private business.”
What is privatization?
200
One of the most obvious weaknesses of local control of fiscal operations is that nearly in all states, local school districts vary greatly in their access to this.
What are taxable resources?
200
They make the final decisions for school budgetary requests, which are are based on deliberations of the board of education without the understanding or active participation of the municipal authorities involved.
Who are the city or council officials?
200
This is the governing board within a school district.
What is a school board?
200
This type of district is comparatively inefficient and can represent a waste of tax funds in terms of dollars per pupil due to high fixed costs.
What is a small school district?
200
This private firm manages public schools, including district and charter schools
What is an education management organization?
300
School districts depend on this almost completely for financing education.
What is property tax revenue?
300
As a group, educators universally favor this approach for school districts or boards, as relying on other agencies NOT affiliated with the education system appears counterproductive in the decision making process.
What is fiscal independence?
300
The chief administrative officer of a school district.
What is a superintendent?
300
This type of district provides the potential for a more efficient and effective school system with high quality educational product.
What is a large school district?
300
“The establishment of these institutions opened up new opportunities for private businesses to manage and operate public schools.”
What are charter schools?
400
This results from the fact that public schools and city governments must use the same property tax base to obtain the relatively large revenues required for their operations.
What is municipal overburden?
400
This type of community will most likely continue to suffer from revenue shortfall unless give equitable treatment in local, state, and federal allocation of funds.
What is an urban community?
400
Places more responsibility on the state to provide additional financial aid to local education agencies.
What are the Education and Equal Protection Clauses?
400
The financially advantageous act of reorganizing small districts into larger ones.
What is consolidation?
400
“According to the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, this is a management mechanism through which school districts may or may not better attain their traditional goals.”
What is private contracting?
500
The high cost of additional city social and educational services has resulted in a higher burden on this population of people.
What are property taxpayers?
500
These three levels of government sometimes create a problem in coordinating the taxing system, as they operate their tax patterns in isolation from one another.
What is federal, state, and local?
500
The process of reducing the number of small local school districts resulting in larger more financially efficient school districts.
What is reorganization?
500
This sector of education has grown rapidly and significantly since the 1990s.
What are charter schools?
500
“Critics of privatization believe that allocation of this will be impacted over time.”