Between 1970 and 1990,
real expenditure per pupil increased not by 10 percent but by over 84 percent.
Not exact matches
The Conservative party says it would protect school
expenditure in cash terms
per pupil, whereas Labour says it would protect school
expenditure in
real terms.
However, this ignores the embarrassing reality that
real per -
pupil expenditures have more than tripled in the past four decades, without a corresponding rise in student achievement.
A natural measure of the rise in costs is the rise in
real per pupil expenditures for employer pension contributions.