Still, particularly shocking was this tidbit: «The New York City school district spends twice as much per pupil on instructional salaries as does Los Angeles Unified.» (laschoolreport.com)
Linear weighted average — A calculation approximating what most school divisions spend to operate their schools used to establish the funded cost of many components of the Standards of Quality, such as instructional salaries. (doe.virginia.gov)
More to the point, says the Empire Center, «School spending in New York [state] was driven primarily by instructional salaries and benefits — which, at $ 14,769 per pupil, were 114 percent above the national average of $ 6,903, the census data show.» (nypost.com)