Administration does take a lot of money, but instruction is somewhere in the 35-53% range. That may sound low, but that's still quite a lot considering it buys

Administration does take a lot of money, but instruction is somewhere in the 35-53% range. That may sound low, but that's still quite a lot considering it buys only ~60% high school graduation rates -- worse than, for instance, Chile, which costs ~10x less to administer. Suffice it to say, the operation of these schools is inefficient in the extreme by any way I can measure it. That's why a relatively poor country like China can even generate headlines like this. But the problem persists across private schools, too, largely, so I think it's fair to say this is a tough problem to solve. http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba745 http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba745 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/02/the-states-that-spend-the-most-and-the-least-on-education-in-one-map/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/06/02/the-... http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/high-school-graduation-rates-tick-u-s-still-lags-developed-countries/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/high-school-graduation-r... http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/images/publications/books/stewart2012_fig1.gif http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/images/publications/books/stewart20... http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Chile-EU_-_statistics_on_education#Educational_expenditure http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...