The vast majority of the increases in education spending over the last decades have ended up expanding the state-level bureaucracies rather than making it to te

The vast majority of the increases in education spending over the last decades have ended up expanding the state-level bureaucracies rather than making it to teachers and classrooms. Until we make some kind of change to the systems that ensured that outcome, we can expect the same to happen in the future. The amount of spending isn't the problem -- we've consistently increased spending. But that increased spending doesn't increase classroom budgets or teacher salaries significantly.