Hundreds of grants were received for students seemingly attending a Rockland Community College program in Judaica studies that, like the Brooklyn school, existed mainly on paper.
Many districts have chosen to spend much of the money they received for students with disabilities on things like lift buses, handicap-accessible vans and renovated bathrooms.
The city's Independent Budget Office estimates the value of free space for charter schools at about $2,400 a student, on top of the more than $13,000 in other public support they receive for each student.
And, under current city rules, schools that expel students after Oct. 5 — the city's official school census date — get to keep the thousands of dollars in funding they receive for each student.
It would allow the schools to receive credit for students who graduate within six years and exempt students 17 and older from counting as dropouts.
Deasy said that his budget absolutely directs the extra money received for disadvantaged students to programs and services that benefit them.
Completed parent questionnaires were received for 423 students (40%) at follow-up.
For example, a school receives 2.5 times the amount of funding it would receive for a general population student to educate a special education student.
She called for schools found to be guilty of illegally excluding a pupil for a month to be stripped of the funds they received for that student for a year.
The £9,000 fee cap must be lowered but the "unit of resource" – the amount of money that a university receives for each student registered – should remain at its present value of £9,000.
The district has taken out such large loans that currently, $3,019--nearly a quarter--of funding that the school district receives for each student goes immediately to paying off years of bad debt rather than to the classroom.
