[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

All schools should be privatized. The market will weed out unionized flunkies and competition will force kids to improve. There really isn’t any need for government to be involved in education at all. For those who can’t afford it, proceeds from the state lottery could help those in need.

[2banana]

Ban teachers unions and institute school choice and it will be amazing how good an education you could buy for that amount of money...

[sphinx]

See Table 11 on page 11: http://census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/econ/g14-aspef.pdf

Per this year's Census Bureau report on public school financing, New Jersey schools have total per pupil revenues of $20,531, which puts it fourth nationally. This is 2014 data, the most recent available.

The big surprise is that DC, the perennial leader in this area, remained (barely) under $30,000 in total revenues per student. DC again provides the timely example that more money doesn't solve the schools' problems if the educational model is wrong.

[ml/nj]

Good news if that is $6,599 total per student. Not so good if that is State Aid per student, and I still have to make up the difference to the $22,000+ that Newark spends per pupil. (And I assume this doesn't include any of the $100 mil that genius Zuckerberg gave them back in 2010, and has presumably been entirely pissed away by now.)

ML/NJ

[dljordan]

Screw fairness. Give the most to the people who are capable of learning.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

I live in the great state of New Jersey. Not all public schools are bad. They are some truly great teachers who care about the wellbeing of the children and want success and achievement. However, the core curriculum is somewhat indoctrinating. We’ll see if Christie’s education plan will work and if it passes the NJ Legislature.

[Rumplemeyer]

The problem with school funding in New Jersey is the Teachers Union, they bribe the politicians with Union dues, to vote to increase benefits to the Teachers Union members.

If this is not illegal nothing is.

The money spent on “education” is for the bureaucracy on the kids.

All brought to you by the Democrats, Steve Sweeny head jackal.

[Shanghai Dan]

This is one thing that Sweden gets right: a voucher system for K-12 education. You choose which school to attend, the schools have to accept on a "first come, first served" basis, and the money goes with the kid. Poor performing schools close because no one will go there...

Well, that and bikini teams:

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