If the quality of public schools can be measured by the amount of money spent per student, then U.S. students should be performing fabulously.
The national average in fiscal year 2009 was $10,499, a 2.3 percent increase over the previous year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, citing data from Public Education: 2009.
Some states spent way above the national average, starting with New York, which spent $18,126 per student. Other top spenders include Washington ($16,408), New Jersey ($16,271), Alaska ($15,552), and Vermont ($15,175).
The states that spent the least amount per student were Utah ($6,356), Idaho, ($7,092), Arizona ($7,813), Oklahoma ($7,885) and Tennessee ($7,897).
3 comments:
And Wicomico County is somewhere around $9200 per student. What a shame!
But yet the government spends on average 30,000 to 40,000 per prisoner every year. When the kids that are the future of the country can't get as much spent on them as murderers and rapists do there is something seriously wrong.
the quality of our education has been sliding since the 60's. throwing money at a failing system WILL NOT work.
change the system; bring total education oversite back to the local school districts; get unions out of the education system; hire only those teachers who have a true passion for teaching; look at the results yearly and if they continue to look bad let that teacher go; get the federal government out of education because they offer NOTHING and we could then bring back some of those dollars back to the local district.
i'm sure, given time, there is much more that could be done but because of the chokehold by the unions and the mindset of the current educators and administrators we are stuck in a horrible rut. they just can't see the obvious; " the emperor is naked".
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