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.
For example, the average citizen is unlikely to know that the term «current expenditures per ADA» means «
operating expenditures per pupil as measured by average daily attendance.»
Not exact matches
In most cases, tax revenues pay the costs at private schools up to the
expenditures per pupil in government -
operated schools.
[Update: An earlier version of this post omitted Virginia from the list of states adopting STC programs since 2010 and incorrectly labeled total
per pupil expenditures as
operating per pupil expenditures.]
In the years between 1949 and 1967, the average
per -
pupil expenditure for all current
operating expenses increased from $ 206 to $ 493.
Moreover, they do so while
operating with similarly high percentages of students eligible for free / reduced lunch, similarly high student mobility rates, similar curriculum frameworks, and similar
per -
pupil expenditures.2
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education provides more than ten years of
Per Pupil Expenditures Reports, which contain operating per pupil expenditure da
Per Pupil Expenditures Reports, which contain operating per pupil expenditure
Pupil Expenditures Reports, which contain
operating per pupil expenditure da
per pupil expenditure
pupil expenditure data.
The Current Expense of Education &
Per -
pupil Spending report on that page includes
operating expenditures only.
[Update: An earlier version of this post incorrectly labeled total
per pupil expenditures as
operating per pupil expenditures.]