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You're only looking at federal funding here. Most public school funding in the US comes from states. My state of Washingon spent $17.5 billion on schooling thi
by munificent 4y ago
You're only looking at federal funding here. Most public school funding in the US comes from states.
My state of Washingon spent $17.5 billion on schooling this year, on top of that federal funding.
- CharlesW 4y agoThank you for making that very important point. That looks like ~28% of the state budget, and per-student spending appears to very high (the 4th highest in the U.S.). Washington is spending 1.5X per student as compared to California, and is apparently not seeing commensurate improvements. I wonder if there are folks working on debugging the apparent inefficiencies of state education systems.
- ghaff 4y agoIt's often not even state budget in the US. In the case of my town, while I believe some money comes from the state in the form of grants etc., about 60% of my town's property taxes go to funding the elementary school and a split (with two other towns) of the regional high school district.