Washington D.C. schools spent more per pupil than any state but had the lowest scores in the nation

thebullelephant.com ^ | May 14, 2022 | Hans Bader

[grundle]

“D.C. Public Schools Spent $31,843 Per Pupil; But D.C. 8th Graders Had Lowest Math and Reading Scores in Nation,” reports CNS News. Washington, DC spent more per student than any of the 50 states:

The public schools in Washington. D.C., spent a total of $31,843 per pupil in fiscal year 2020…Meanwhile, the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered in 2019 showed that only 23 percent of the eight graders in D.C. public schools were proficient or better in reading and only 23 percent were proficient or better in mathematics.

The average reading test score for D.C. eighth graders was lower than the average for eighth graders in any of the 50 states. The average math score for D.C. eighth graders tied with the averages for eighth graders in Alaska and New Mexico for lowest in the nation.

By contrast, Utah spent only $9,424 per student — less than a third as much as D.C. — yet its students performed above average. The Washington, DC schools have been spending more than any state for years, even as its students lag behind the students of all other states on tests, according to the National Center for Education Statistics:

In 2019 …. eighth graders in D.C. public schools had an average score of 250 out of 500 in the NAEP reading test. That was a lower average than any of the 50 states.

That same year, according to NCES, D.C. public school eight graders had an average score of 269 out of 500 in the NAEP mathematics test. That tied D.C. eighth graders with those in New Mexico and Alabama for the lowest average mathematics score in the nation.

You can find all this data and more in reports from the National Center for Education Statistics.

[rovenstinez]

I wonder if a private school got $31,000 per student how well they could do...in getting better grades for all students.

[dsrtsage]

Perhaps if they double the expenditure and elect more democrats

[DAC21]

No worries, no doubt they had one of the highest murder rates. It all works out.

[17th Miss Regt]

There is an inverse relationship between per student spending and test scores.

[Gene Eric]

>> D.C. Public Schools Spent $31,843 Per Pupil

On par with college tuition.

[fhayek]

I don't know, but I have seen studies that indicate that almost anything - private schools, charter schools, home schools, heck just letting the kids fend for themselves - is a better form of education than the public schools. And it is always a darn sight cheaper.

[cockroach_magoo]

Yes. They’re clearly not spending enough. I suggest increasing expenditures and using it to hire bureaucrats — I mean administrators.

[Chickensoup]

Remember most of this money goes to salaries and pensions.

Private schools cost a lot more than 31k per year in dc

[olivia3boys]

The strongest correlation to academic success is not $$ per student but these 2 items: 1) the presence of a desk (just one desk) in the home, and 2) the presence of books (not a lot, just some) in the home.

[metmom]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

[marktwain]

It has been going on for a long time.

The D.C. government commissioned a team to research it and find out why.

They did not like the answer: Parents were not concerned with the children doing well, and the children fostered an attitude of working and doing well on academics was "acting white" and therefore, bad.

[Flavious_Maximus]

This has been going on for decades. It is specific to DC. If you took that money and used it to educate kids in any African mud hut country, they would get double the proficiency than those in DC. As I said, the problem is DC.

[P.O.E.]

As “The Producers” proved all those decades ago - there’s a lot of money to be made from failure.

[PghBaldy]

They probably have to pay teachers a lot to work with dangerous, hostile, unintelligent students.

[Kevmo]

Parents were not concerned with the children doing well, and the children fostered an attitude of working and doing well on academics was "acting white" and therefore, bad.

***Acting white. Barack Obama had something to say about that.

from my home page

___________________________________________________________________

Culturism.

The problem isn't racism. Race cannot be changed. The problem is Culture. Culture is the thing that can be changed. None of us, including obambam, and others can change the color of their skin but we can change our culture we choose to uphold. The key is to uphold positive aspects of our own and others' culture, and reduce the negative aspects.

Some cultures are superior to others. An example is San Diego vs. Tijuana. They're 5 miles apart, separated by a simple fence. On one side is a shiitehole and on the other is a pleasant enough place to live. Same climate, same location, the only difference is that fence that separates 2 distinct cultures -- one of which millions of people clamor to get into and the other of which people try to get out of.

Even obambam is culturist: "Parents have to... eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white." ~Barack Obama , 2004 Democratic National Convention

Serenity prayer approach to racism:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change like Race

the courage to change the things I can like Culture

the wisdom to know the difference like the difference between Race and Culture.

___________________________________________________________________

[Lee25]

It really doesn’t matter how much they spend. iQ decides how much you can learn. That’s hard truth they have to play politics with

[DIRTYSECRET]

The Kenyan kicked the black kids out of Sidwell. Their parents took one for the team. Good for them.

[hanamizu]

I wonder if a private school got $31,000 per student how well they could do...in getting better grades for all students.

---

Considering the students and parents involved, likely not all that much. If private schools were required to accept every kid, and could not really discipline any diagnosed with any kind of mental, emotional or behavioral ‘disability’, I doubt if they would fare all that much better.

The money spent, isn’t the key. The key to schools’ and students’ success is the values instilled by the parents in their children before they come to school. If the parents demand the best of their kids, their kids will prosper. If the parents basically don’t value education and don’t make any effort to raise their kids, the kids and the schools they attend will fail.

If 90% of a teacher’s day is spent trying to keep a class under some semblance of control, not much teaching or learning is going to take place. After a few year of this good teachers will either quit education entirely or try to find work in a school where kids want to learn. Teachers just there for the pay check will resign themselves to being more corrections officers than teachers.

[Enterprise]

"IQ decides how much you can learn."

A FReeper posted an interesting stat. The least intelligent 10% of white people have an IQ of 81. Whereas, 40% of black people have an IQ of 81.