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The USA spends more per student on public education than any OECD country besides Norway. It’s probably not a funding problem.

• cma 7y ago
  Look at marginal utility of the dollars spent per student. Each additional dollar on a given student is worth less than the previous one, and since wealthy neighborhoods get 3-10x the funding, lots of their dollars are having dramatically less impact. Gingrich proposed tweaking child labor laws to let poor students work as janitors to make the schools look close to as shiny as rich schools ( https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/newt-gingrich-thinks-school-children-should-work-as-janitors/248837/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/newt-gi... ), but I think that is missing the real problem.
  • didgeoridoo 7y ago
    Not sure where you’re getting 3-10x. The discrepancy appears to be closer to 10-20% (~$11k per student in poor districts vs. ~$13k in rich districts). Are you saying there are districts that spend $30k-100k per student? [0] https://edtrust.org/resource/funding-gaps-2018 https://edtrust.org/resource/funding-gaps-2018 [1] https://edbuild.org/content/23-billion#CA https://edbuild.org/content/23-billion#CA
    • cma 7y ago
      Wow seems my numbers may be way off.