It's a greater factor than class size or per-pupil spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Education Reform that All Politicians Ignore: Ending Poverty] Reference

In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Books Banned by Sarah Palin"] Reference

And here in Detroit, students are funded on a per-pupil basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bleak Picture For Young Black Male Students] Reference

Those do indeed look like per-pupil public school expenditures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » If We Just Spent More Money On Education…] Reference

California ranks near the bottom among states in per-pupil spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Schools' Tough Choices] Reference

(In constant dollars, per-pupil spending in 1983 was 56% of today's.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Five Years Later, A Nation Still at Risk] Reference

Because money is allocated on a per-pupil basis, that's three fewer allocations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerald Bracey: Arnie in (Charter) Wonderland] Reference

Thirteen thousand dollars per-pupil spending is one of the highest in the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's A Team] Reference

You would absolutely be stunned at the per-pupil costs of some of these children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Gibson Savages Scottie Griffin at cvillenews.com] Reference

Our own state of Washington, Bill, ranks 46th in the nation for per-pupil funding!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sue Peters: Open Letter to Bill Gates from a Public School Parent] Reference

Vermont has smaller class sizes and higher per-pupil expenditures than most states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Republicans and the Culture of Stupidity] Reference

As a result, California ranks last in per-pupil funding with more cuts still coming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recession is Over, the Depression Just Beginning] Reference

In general, per-pupil spending on materials and equipment has been cut by 33 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

The district also has lost per-pupil state funding as its student population dwindles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Detroit Schools in Fiscal Rut Despite Cuts] Reference

The new budget is slightly larger than this year's budget, but per-pupil spending will shrink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlook improves for Arlington, Va., schools planetarium] Reference

By the way, D.C. has among the highest per-pupil funding in the country; lots of good that did!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » At The Department of Forgotten Cabinet Secretaries] Reference

This, despite a more rapid increase in per-pupil spending than was found in other states 42% to 36.6%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Errors of Enchantment » New Mexico Education Falling Further Behind] Reference

Buffalo, N.Y., one of the smallest cities on our list, boasts the top-spending per-pupil school system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Cities For Working Mothers, 2010] Reference

The per-pupil funding for a system that was once in the top-5 of all the states has sunk to the bottom-5.    From Wordnik.com.  [P. T. Barnum and Pogo, and how we got into this mess] Reference

In a recent study of California schools, per-pupil spending alone did not account for differences in performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teachers Wanted] Reference

KONDRACKE: It's more than just money, because some of these big city systems actually have a high per-pupil cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2008] Reference

So every year, the district is seeing huge declines in per-pupil funding, money that can be used in the classroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bleak Picture For Young Black Male Students] Reference

How can a state do that and still afford to cut taxes, raise teacher pay, and boost per-pupil spending by a third?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2003] Reference

Since 1970, average per-pupil expenditures after inflation have more than doubled, yet test scores have remained flat.    From Wordnik.com.  [School Reform Rainmakers] Reference

Indeed I see no reason that every school should not be independantly run with direct state funding on a per-pupil basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [In praise of milk snatching] Reference

The state Legislature froze funding for charter schools for the 2009-10 school year at the same per-pupil level as 2008-09.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sense of Betrayal at Union Charter School] Reference

There is an unfair disparity already between Gloucester per-pupil spending compared to our neighbors Manchester and Rockport.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

The findings hold up even after controlling for race, ethnicity, free-lunch eligibility, class size and per-pupil state spending.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Certified' Teacher Myth] Reference

Between 1990 and 2008, inflation-adjusted MPS spending rose by 35%, per-pupil spending increased by 36% and state aid grew by 58%.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spending Education] Reference

Between 1970 and 2004, per-pupil outlays more than doubled in real terms, and the federal portion of that spending nearly tripled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama’s ‘Race to the Top’] Reference

There was a point at which Alabama was 48th in the country in per-pupil spending, but it was 27th in the country in teachers 'salaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United State of Ambition: Politicians, Power and the Pursuit of Office] Reference

Switching to a per-pupil budget system would even out funding across the district, giving more resources to schools that need it the most.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorraine Forte: Don't Make Kids Pawns of School Funding Mess] Reference

We have reached a point where the tax-cutting has brought our state's education spending to the second-lowest per-pupil of all the states!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Johnson: Our Businesses Thrive On The Infrastructure We Built] Reference