When private-school tuition goes up, it's because the cost per student has gone up.
But it is rising per student, as a low birth rate reduces the number of matriculations.
The cost of administration per student soared by 61% in real terms between 1993 and 2007.
In secondary education, Mr Clements found, Portugal spends more per student than most countries, for two reasons.
The average cost of college per student has risen by three times the rate of inflation since 1983.
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Countless parochial schools, which spend far less per student than do public schools, easily out perform their public-school counterparts.
We are spending more money per student, awarding more degrees, and spending more time in school than ever before.
Yet, the cost per student at New York's Catholic schools is a fraction of that at the public schools.
In Britain, this drove down costs per student, and delivered more student places without a huge rise in spending.
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By comparison most public schools get an amount per student and must pay teachers and all other costs from that money.
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Today, CU's administrative spending per student is less than half the average of other big research institutions, according to federal data.
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Since 1980, spending per student at Egypt's 15 state universities, with a current enrolment of nearly 1m students, has fallen by half.
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One of its priorities in talks with the Tories would be to ensure a commitment to maintaining the "unit of funding" per student.
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According to work by Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute, public education employment per student has nearly doubled over the last four decades.
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Hauptschulen spend more per student than loftier tiers of high school, and in Berlin there is a supplement when the proportion of foreigners passes 40%.
Colleges have found ways to hold costs per student relatively steady.
Spain spends 28 percent more on education per student than the average European country, according to a report released last year by the Spanish government.
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For many years the educational establishment has used metrics like money spent per student or the number of teachers with advanced degrees to evaluate our K-12 schools.
The report shows that even though funding for higher education in the UK is above the average for the European Union, the amount per student has fallen.
The paper calls for a series of measures to improve the financial position of the colleges, including better funding per student, a VAT exemption and an insurance rebate.
The report, based on data from the association of State Higher Education Executive Officers, contends that spending per student on public higher education has been essentially flat since 1985.
The sickest among the elderly people are now treated with a per person costs that is many times as much as the per student payment to educate a child.
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The vast majority of African Americans in public schools are from a dozen urban under-resourced schools with challenges very different from the suburban high per-capita cost per student schools.
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"A reduction in the public funding per student could seriously threaten our ability to offer the high-quality experience our students deserve and expect, " said its president, Professor Steve Smith.
And because Illinois is dependent, like many states, on local property taxes to pay for its schools, wealthy districts spend nearly four times as much per student as the poorest districts.
To be sure, last year's decline in state funding nationwide was driven heavily by cutbacks in California, which has the largest state system and lashed funding per student by 14.3% last year.
Between 1993 and 2007, inflation-adjusted spending on administration per student increased by 61% and the number of administrators per 100 students grew by 39%, according to a study published earlier this month by the Goldwater Institute.
In each of the last four economic recessions in the United States, that is in the mid-1970s, in the early 1980s, in the early 1990s and most recently in 2000-2001, state higher education spending per student declined markedly.
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"Excellence in higher education is costly, " particularly in a big city like New York, an NYU spokesman said in a statement, adding that NYU doesn't benefit from a large per student endowment or state funding and is "upfront" about costs.
This paradigm, which combines meaningful work that can be graded at scale with peer-teaching among students, allows us to offer some of our best educational content to students around the world, at a negligible marginal cost of pennies per student.
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