[henkster]

We should ask the NEA if seed corn tastes better than the regular variety....

[anonsquared]

Liberals are all for global this and global that. They even want to subvert the Constitution to international law. So how about the teachers bowing to international spending per student and taking a huge pay cut to align American school spending with the countries which are producing students who actually learn things.

According to the California Department of Education the average per pupil expense for the 07-08 school year was $8,594. This puts California just below the national average of around $9,000 per student, and well below states like New York and New Jersey who average around $12,000 per student.

As for other countries who are rated higher educationally than the United States:

* Korea (ranked 1st in scientific literacy and 2nd in mathematic literacy): spends around $4500 per student for primary education and $6500 per student for secondary education.

* Japan (1st in mathematical literacy and 2nd in scientific literacy): spends around $6700 per student for primary education and around $8000 per student for secondary education.

* Finland (1st in reading literacy and 3rd in scientific literacy): around $5500 per student for primary education and around $7000 per student for secondary education.

* New Zealand (3rd in reading literacy and 3rd in mathematical literacy) around $5000 per student for primary education and around $6000 per student for secondary education.

http://www.mahalo.com/answers/education/how-much-money-does-california-spend-on-education-per-student-compared-to-the-countries-who-are-highest-rated-for-education

[jimt]

The answer to where the money is going is simple: ADMINISTRATION.

My wife’s middle school has 3 bureaucrat layers between her and the principal.

HISD (Houston Independent School District) has 3.7 additional employees per classrom teacher.

Administrators are frequently doctorates (in education) and are compensated accordingly - yet many have trouble finding their rear ends with both hands.

Conduct a wholesale firing on non-teaching personnel and you’ll quickly find out where the dough is going. And generate a huge surplus to boot.

[Jacquerie]

Over the last decade the various teachers unions across the country have expanded their operations into the courtroom. Unions have threatened, and even successfully litigated, "adequacy" lawsuits across the country, to force states to increase funds to K-12 education.

There is no end to judicial abuse. If black robes can determine the level of taxes, why bother electing legislators?