Posted on 05/24/2007 10:18:02 AM PDT by 68skylark
New York State spent $14,119 per student — more than any other state in the nation — in the 2005 fiscal year, according to a national analysis of public school spending that the Census Bureau released today.
The analysis, Public Education Finances: 2005, placed New Jersey at No. 2 on the list, at $13,800, followed by the District of Columbia (which was treated as a state) at $12,979, Vermont at $11,835 and Connecticut at $11,572. Seven of the top 10 with the highest per-pupil expenditures were in the Northeast. Detailed tables [Excel] are available through the Census Bureau’s Web site. A graphic of the top five states (including the District of Columbia) is here.
Across the nation, public school districts spent an average of $8,701 per student on elementary and secondary education in the 2005 fiscal year, up by 5 percent from $8,287 the previous year....
The Census analysis also found that Utah spent the least per student ($5,257), topped next by Arizona ($6,261), Idaho ($6,283), Mississippi ($6,575) and Oklahoma ($6,613). All 10 of the states with the lowest spending per student were in the West or South.
(Excerpt) Read more at empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Personally I don't think $14,119 is enough. I don't think we can expect kids to learn reading or math until spending gets a lot higher.
It’s all about the chilren......
Yeah...with 30 kids per class that only amounts to $423,570.00 per classroom for 9 months of education....
Geez, hardly can do anything with that.... (/sarcasm off)
Some additional — and depressing — education stats here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lR1KQq2-U
MORE money down the same rathole is NOT the answer — it only encourages them.
And doing the same things over and over while expecting a different result is the definition of INSANITY.
We’ve lost our minds.
It costs a lot more to train up them northerners right.
Some NYC students get more:
New York City’s high schools for pregnant girls:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838880/posts
“...the Education Department spent $33,670 on each student this year, a cost of more than $10.8 million — more than double the citywide average of per-pupil spending.”
How much of that is for English-as-a-Second-Language-Teachers and teachers who teach in Spanish or some other language...
I dug through our city budget and disvoered that we actually spend $26k/student/yr, when you add in all the hidden items. (Falls Church, VA)
Wonder what NY really spends?
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