The public elementary and secondary schools in the District of Columbia spent $30,115 per pupil during the 2016-2017 school year, according to Table 236.75 in the Department of Education’s “Digest of Education Statistics.”
But only 23% of the eighth graders in the D.C. public schools were proficient or better in reading in 2019, according to the department’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, tests.
Which is why the left wingers in charge of our educational centers want to do away with pre, interim and post tests.
Most of my friends kids were reading at 3rd grade or better by the time they entered kindergarten. They were also proficient at math to 3rd or 4th grade
Level by first grade. By eight grade, if I had anything to do with it, they were proficient in algebra and geometry, and understood the basic concepts of calculus.. the reading took the investment of a few trips to the 99 cent store