To pick on just a single thing: this article highlights a handful of eye-popping figures for per-student spending in larger districts, but it never actually est

To pick on just a single thing: this article highlights a handful of eye-popping figures for per-student spending in larger districts, but it never actually establishes that these comparisons are meaningful. NYC, for example, spends an extraordinary amount per-student on paper. But a lot of that is pension obligations and other spending that (1) can't be cut, and (2) costs less in overhead in larger districts. It's not clear that other districts uniformly include their pension contributions in their student funding numbers. Edit: To qualify: from casual searching, it seems like a lot of municipalities include teachers as a bucket in their larger civil service pension budget line.