WGU D023 School
Financial Leadership
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charter schools - answer public schools run by
private entities to give parents greater control
over their children's education
True or False
Charter schools are funded by public schools,
through public dollars, like a public school. -
answer False
Charter schools are funded in a variety of means
depending upon the state they are located in, how
they are chartered, and how they are managed.
Funding sources for charter schools may include,
but are not limited to, public dollars through
district support, grants, loans, donations, tuition,
or federal funding.
Magnet Schools - answer Public schools that focus
on particular disciplines or areas, such as fine arts
or science
,open enrollment in schools - answer This option
allows parents to send their children to a public
school within their school district. Interdistrict
open enrollment allows parents to send their
children to a public school of their choice in
surrounding school districts.
education vouchers - answer Also known as school
vouchers, they are government educational funds
that are given directly to public school students
(vs. to the school, school district, or larger
administrative body) so that students using these
vouchers may attend the schools of their choice,
public or private, instead of the public school for
which they are zoned.
True or False
Vouchers are payments made to parents, or an
institution on a parent's behalf, to pay for a child's
educational expenses, usually a private or
parochial school. These payments are made to
parents exclusively through public tax dollars. -
answer False
Voucher payments are payments made to parents,
or an institution on a parent's behalf, to pay for a
child's educational expenses in schools other than
public schools. However, these payments can come
, through both public and private sources.
Advocates of vouchers support school choice.
tax credits in school choice - answer Parents are
allowed a tax credit to offset some expenses
incurred by sending their child to a private school.
Other tax credits and deductions allow individuals
and corporations to redirect tax dollars to
scholarship-granting organizations, which in turn
redistribute these contributions to students in the
form of private school scholarships.
What are nontraditional sources of funding? -
answer 1. fees and user charges (school lunch,
textbook rentals, transportation passes)
2.gaming revenues
3. private resources (grants, gifts, donations)
4. changing public school structure (charter)
5. tax expenditures
What is a grant? - answer -term for various types
of funding
-can be from agencies, foundations, or non-profit
Cost reimbursement grants - answer -Most
common
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