Time scale on that is too short. There is one on this page that goes back to 1970 in 2016 inflation adjusted dollars: https://edsource.org/2015/states-in-motio

Time scale on that is too short. There is one on this page that goes back to 1970 in 2016 inflation adjusted dollars: https://edsource.org/2015/states-in-motion-school-finance-naep-child-poverty/83303 https://edsource.org/2015/states-in-motion-school-finance-na... Even if it stayed constant per your graph, teachers are competing with growth in administrators for education dollars.