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Honest question: what is the appropriate level of investment? According to the national center for education statistics [0] Spending per pupil went up 13% from
by MostlyStable 2y ago
Honest question: what is the appropriate level of investment? According to the national center for education statistics [0] Spending per pupil went up 13% from 2010 to 2021 after accounting for inflation, so that's a real increase of 13%, not a nominal increase. And 80% of those dollars are going to staff.
I'll admit that I'm anything but an expert, but a real increase in spending of 13% across a decade does not sound like years of underinvestment. I'm happy to be educated on this topic, but from an outsider perspective, it just doesn't seem like the issue.
[0] https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmb https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmb
- vundercind 2y agoTeacher wages lots of places probably need a 20% bump, or more, to stop the bleeding. Regardless of the total being spent, not enough’s going to comp for teachers. The whole thing’s worst in states that were already paying sub-par COL-adjusted wages (obviously) so states that weren’t screwing up quite so bad to begin with might not need so drastic a change.