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Posted on 12/28/2025 4:52:36 AM PST by Adder
As national education spending per pupil rises, student enrollment is dropping and test scores across the United States are falling, which raises concern over how effectively taxpayer dollars are being used in public schools.
Since 2002, K-12 public school spending has increased by more than 35%, yet enrollment has dropped 2.1%, which is over a million students over the past five years. Student achievement has also declined, with only one-third of students nationwide scoring at or above the proficient level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading, according to the National Assessment Governing Board.
Currently, 40% of fourth graders are working below the NAEP basic level in reading, the highest percentage since 2002.
These declines continue despite record per-pupil spending. In 2024, New York leads as the highest per-pupil spending state, at $32,284. California is also among the highest, currently at $25,941. The lowest spending states include Utah, Idaho and Mississippi.
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Surely importing more 3rd worlders should help with those scores
>> Surely importing more 3rd worlders should help with those scores
As long as they’re from Asia! LOL
It has nothing to do with money and everything to do with the teachers.
...and devices...
SURPRISE!
Success becomes the expectation and defining line in budgets. By never succeeding, it only grows spending and validates lower expectations.
Schools only care about attendance, because their funding is based on it.
A lot of the increase in spending is for sports . Artificial turf, new stadiums,new gymnasiums,coaches and assistant coaches.
Who needs reading, writing, aritmetic?
“””Record school spending across U.S. fails to reverse decline in test scores””””
Teaching kids is expensive.
Indoctrinating kids is UNBELIEVEABLY expensive.
Teaching only requires the employment of one person—the teacher.
Indoctrination requires the employment of many administrators to make sure the one teacher is saying and doing the approved method.
The only association between spending and test scores is when the former is high and the latter is low, you know teachers’ unions—and pedagogy and ideology—still prevail.
Unions always goose their payrolls with unneeded staffing.
“Oh no! Our test scores are down! We will need more money!”
“Here is more money.”
[smirk] “Thanks for the money. But our test scores are still down! We will need more money!”
“Here is more money.”
[smirk] “Thanks for the money. But our test scores are still down! We will need more money!”
It’s a game. And there is absolutely no incentive for the schools to actually improve. As soon as they improve, the money spigot gets turned off. They don’t want that.
And al the while, the teacher unions demand teachers be I more!
And unions.
Schools are top heavy in administration and communists, instead of reading writing and arithmetic, God forbid history and the Constitution, they push socialism, communism, faggotry, transgenderism and hate of America.
Mississippi has found the way - they have gone from 50th to 14th in reading in less than 10 years. They actually require the kids to do the work!
Everywhere else?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTeachers/comments/1pr04w7/are_the_kids_ok_especially_the_young_men/
schools won’t improve until parents improve ...
And/or “ administrators”
The highly paid DEI featherbedders
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