Education Spending at the national level has increased at about twice the rate of inflation for more than 30 years.
Nationwide school enrollment has fallen steadily for the last 20 years as the Boomer and Gen X Generations left school and the Much smaller Gen Y and Millenial generations came along.
More Money + Fewer Students and yet educational performance has at best stagnated and more likely fallen back significantly.
Further it is now cheaper to send a child to private school in most cities than it is to send them to the public schools. A mere 10 years ago that was not the case and yet private schools still continually outperform public schools.
No, the issue is not that we do not spend enough money.
Clearly the issue is we spend TOO MUCH money in all the wrong places.
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Date: 17/2/11 17:46 (UTC)Nationwide school enrollment has fallen steadily for the last 20 years as the Boomer and Gen X Generations left school and the Much smaller Gen Y and Millenial generations came along.
More Money + Fewer Students and yet educational performance has at best stagnated and more likely fallen back significantly.
Further it is now cheaper to send a child to private school in most cities than it is to send them to the public schools. A mere 10 years ago that was not the case and yet private schools still continually outperform public schools.
No, the issue is not that we do not spend enough money.
Clearly the issue is we spend TOO MUCH money in all the wrong places.