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As the bureaucracy got bigger, wouldn't it cost more? More levels of management, more paperwork, more time spent on oversight. I don't think the cost/size rela

• RyanMcGreal 17y ago
  Good point. Still, a system an order of magnitude bigger might be only ten percent more expensive per student.
• hugh3 17y ago
  But education isn't handled at the Federal level in the US (and to the extent that it is, it damn well shouldn't be).
  • yellowbkpk 17y ago
    It's handled at the state level. According to [0], Finland has roughly 600,000 students in what we might call K-12 and according to [1] almost all of our states each have at least as many students individually and most have more than double. (Not sure what my point was, but it was interesting to find the data :)) [0] http://www.stat.fi/til/opiskt/2007/opiskt_2007_2008-01-25_tie_001_en.html http://www.stat.fi/til/opiskt/2007/opiskt_2007_2008-01-25_ti... (Basic comprehensive school education, compulsory education school) [1] http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-26.pdf http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-26.pdf (adding elementary and high school columns together for K-12)
    • pchristensen 17y ago
      Colorado, the 22nd most populous state, has 5M people. Only 9 states have ~10M or more people. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_states_by_population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_states_by_population
    • RyanMcGreal 17y ago
      Unrelated aside: I enjoyed the zero-based index for your references. :)