It is a private day school, but it operates on a per-pupil budget less than half that of the local public schools.
He favors per-pupil budgeting to create more resource equity among schools, but concedes that imposing it would be tough since schools with veteran, highly paid teachers stand to lose under such a plan -- which went nowhere under previous administrations.
We need to ensure that the pupil premium budget is put to good use.
Teather was able to announce that the pupil premium budget is doubling from £625m this year to £1.25bn in 2012-13.
Children's minister Sarah Teather reminded her party's conference of this when she announced a doubling of the pupil premium budget next year.
The state pre-schools, however, fall short of set standards for class size and staff-to-pupil ratios.The budget is the key constraint.
Another section teaches mathematics by setting quests, such as an Alaskan dog-sled race for which pupils must plan, budget and manage provisions.Two decades of fitting classrooms with computers and whiteboards have gobbled rich countries' school budgets and done little for attainment.
But education is a favourite theme of Mr Davis, and even now that he has increased the school budget per pupil by 34%, to $6,685, California ranks only 35th among the states in education spending.
It has also devised a computer programme that more accurately calculates the cost of a trip per pupil, meaning it can budget better for trips and cut down on unexpected costs.
"In contradiction to the IPPR's allegations, the Sutton Trust/NFER survey in May shows that only 3% of schools surveyed said the pupil premium was offsetting budget cuts elsewhere, down from 11% in 2012".
He warned that the school system had to serve a rising number of pupils, so the schools budget would need to have grown to maintain the same level of per pupil spending.
