Gov. Andrew Cuomo has pushed the evaluations as a key strategy for improving student outcomes, which are mediocre despite that New York
spends more money per pupil than any other state.
[Cuomo said the latest lawsuit challenging the way New York allocates education dollars is flawed because the state
spends more money per pupil — on average — than any other state and doesn't get top results.]
In 2011, the most recent year with data available, Austria, Luxembourg, Norway, and Switzerland
spent more money per pupil on education than the United States, but those countries aside, the US spent more than most of the developed world.
The district with the lowest property tax rate (Gibraltar budgeted $ 17,897)
spent more money per pupil than the district with the highest property tax rate (Elmwood budgeted $ 15,388).
Not exact matches
Cuomo has frequently pointed to New York's highest - in - the - nation
spending per pupil, and argued that
more money isn't always the answer to education challenges.
In an ambitious study that seeks to examine state education
spending down to the school level, a new analysis of K - 12 expenses in Wyoming shows that while
per -
pupil spending has swelled to one of the highest rates in the country, schools devoted a significant portion of their
money to raising teacher salaries rather than hiring
more educators.
As a nation which already
spends more per pupil on education than any industrialized country, we simply can't continue to throw good
money after bad.
The average amount of
money spent per pupil by U.S. public schools has
more than doubled in real terms since 1970, and the number of
pupils per employed teacher has declined from 22 to 15.
The plan would cut Walker's proposed
per -
pupil funding increase and target
more money to school districts that
spend less than most others, according to a Legislative Fiscal Bureau memo prepared for Nygren and obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal.
More money is
spent per head on
pupils in England than in Wales.