By: Diane Benjamin
All of the numbers below are from the Illinois Report Card on public schools: https://illinoisreportcard.com/Default.aspx
Now see this graph on spending since the Department of education was established by Jimmy Carter:
Read the whole story HERE
Obviously, the answer is NO.
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Depends on what they do with the spending. For example, if they hired more teachers to reduce class sizes down to the 18-20 range across the board, I guarantee you school performance would increase, a lot.
If they got rid of the standardized testing nonsense, they could use the millions and millions of dollars they waste on it to invest in actual education.
What are these figures with inflation figured in? There are many factors going into the increased costs.
I believe the article says they were adjusted for inflation. It’s the same story we see with college – the feds through money to them, the costs goes up.
Teacher’s and Admin salaries and pensions are through the roof!
Yet reading, math and science scores haven’t improved at all.
A few years back I read a study about kids who did better in school after their school cafeteria changed to organic foods.
Because they wouldn’t eat lunch?
For $10,000 per student, I could hire a private tutor.
I would say “no”, spending more does not get better results. Many private schools spend way less and get better results.
I remember being on a board and if you had a billion dollars to spend they would spend it all and still ask for more. They wanted white boards, more expensive PC’s, etc.
I remember one board member who claimed that when PC’s were brought in the test scores dropped. I don’t know but that sure seemed like the results to me.
Look at the class sizes of private schools…
Well before you enroll four kids, check what it cost and please estimate your fuel and car upkeep to transport , also. Oh and plus insurance.