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> massive federal investment in K-12 schooling Only 3 countries in the world spend more per pupil than the US: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/
by car_analogy 4y ago
> massive federal investment in K-12 schooling
Only 3 countries in the world spend more per pupil than the US: https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Education/Spending-per-primary-school-student https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Education/Sp...
Furthermore, racial differences in per-pupil funding are negligible, with Black and Latinx funding slightly exceeding White:
on average, both Black and Latinx total per pupil expenditures exceed White total per pupil expenditures by $229.53 and $126.15, respectively - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2332858419872445 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584198724...
- Bud 4y agoI imagine those figures fail to exclude spending by the rich on private schools for rich kids. That spending obviously doesn't do anything to help 99% of students. Anyway, we should be 1st. Not 4th. We're the richest country.
- car_analogy 4y ago> I imagine those figures fail to exclude spending by the rich on private schools for rich kids. Blacks are underrepresented among the rich, so if rich private school spending was relatively significant, one would expect the Black per-pupil spending to be the lowest, not the highest.
- swearwolf 4y agoI suspect we spend so much per pupil because overall we spend so little on the rest of society. A school in a neighborhood with a lot of generational poverty is going to have a lot of social problems. Those social problems are going to negatively impact the lives of students, who will then bring those problems to the school with them. Dealing with those problems requires additional staff, which require additional salary.