Total annual public
education operating expenditures in Texas approximate $ 7,000 per student and aggregate spending increased by 43 % over the five years ended in 2002, more than twice the sum of enrollment growth and inflation over the same period.
Not exact matches
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary
Education provides more than ten years of Per Pupil
Expenditures Reports, which contain
operating per pupil
expenditure data.
The Current Expense of
Education & Per - pupil Spending report on that page includes
operating expenditures only.
Like the
Education Next survey, the Friedman survey asked respondents whether they thought public school spending was too high, about right, or too low, after first randomly assigning the respondents into two groups: one that first heard a prompt explaining that the average U.S. public school spends $ 10,658 per pupil (this is average
operating expenditure per pupil), while the other group was not given any prompt.
Government
expenditures for
education or airline safety seem a lot more productive than
expenditures by private citizens to own, lease, or
operate giant SUVs; or to give annual compensations of tens of millions of dollars (and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars) to well entrenched Chief Executive Officers of underperforming companies.
1) Unless I'm missing it, I don't see anyone noting that lobbying, communication and
education expenditures (and person hours of work) related to climate legislation were hardly
operating in a vacuum.
According to the website, some school districts may
operate more efficiently, so while
expenditures are lower, the quality of
education is still high.