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The State of Texas has reduced its share of public education spending during the last decade from 49 percent in 2007 to 41 percent in 2017.

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The current state law says that towns, under the state's so - called «minimum budget requirement,» can not spend less money on public education than was spent during the previous year — unless special circumstances such as a sudden drop in enrollment or other problems.

During the 2005 — 06 school year, the most recent year for which U.S. Department of Education data are available, the nation's public schools spent $ 187 billion in salaries and $ 59 billion in benefits for instructional personnel.

The database reveals that the NEA, which represents about 2.3 million K - 12 public school teachers and about one million education support workers, spent $ 56.3 million during the 2007 - 08 election cycle, making it the largest campaign spender in the nation.

To isolate the effect of the recessionary spending cuts from that of the general ill - effects of the recession, Cora Wigger, Heyu Xiong and I rely on the fact that states that relied heavily on state taxes to fund public schools experienced the deepest education revenue cuts during the recession, on average.

Dr. Robert Watkins spent 23 years as a central office administrator in the Independence Schools including superintendent from 1991 - 99 during his 34 year career in public education.

Based on analyses produced by the Benchmark Educational Resource Group, annual public education operating expenses in Texas approximate $ 7,000 per student, and total spending increased by over 40 % over the past five years, more than twice the sum of enrollment growth and inflation during that period.

Last week, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S. Department of Education, reported that local, state and federal governments had collectively spent 2.8 % more on public schools during the 2014 - 15 school year than in the previous year.

During its 2016 National Convention last month, the group's delegates passed a resolution that reaffirmed the association's opposition to spending public money on charter schools but went a step further by calling for a full moratorium on their «rapid proliferation,» NAACP interim education director Victor Goode confirmed for our partner site The74Million.org Tuesday.

A recent study from the U.S. Department of Education discovered about 94 percent of public school teachers spent their money on classroom supplies without reimbursement during the 2014 - 2015 school year.

During the past three decades, state spending on public education has grown both in terms of revenues spent per pupil and as a percentage of total personal income.