So our next chart tooks at
total expenditures per pupil and student achievement:
As we see here,
total expenditures per pupil are nearly two - and - a-half times higher today than in 1970, after adjusting for inflation, while student achievement toward the end of high school has been flat or has even declined slightly (in science).
Not exact matches
This program may yet lift the performance of our
pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's
total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56
per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82
per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.
In comparison to
total per pupil current
expenditures of about $ 11,600, employer pension costs represent a significant drain on resources that might otherwise have been available for classroom
expenditures.
In addition, we control for district - level characteristics, including
total enrollment,
per -
pupil expenditures, and percentage of funding that comes from local, state, and federal sources.
(Note that the National Center for Education Statistics» calculation of
total per pupil expenditures excludes unfunded pension liabilities.
[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.]
As a result,
total per -
pupil expenditures on education reached a near all - time high in the recession school year of 2009 — 10, climbing (in constant dollars) to $ 13,154 from a $ 12,520 level in 2005 — 06.
According to a report from the Colorado Department of Education, Colorado's average
per -
pupil expenditures total $ 12,181, nearly double the misleading figure given by Gebhardt.
Kentucky's Department of Education provides more than ten years of Annual Financial Receipts and
Expenditures reports, which contain
total per pupil expenditure data.
Total public school
expenditures were about $ 6,500
per pupil in 1993 - 94.
To calculate the primary
per pupil expenditure for the US at the 37 % mark, I multiplied
total education spending for primary school by 0.37 and divided that figure by the US» primary student population.
The highest ELL achievement quintile schools»
total general funds
expenditure per pupil advantage over the lowest ELL achievement quintile schools doubled from approximately $ 400
per pupil in 2010 to approximately $ 800
per pupil in 2012.
Massachusetts provides more than ten years of
Per Pupil Expenditures Reports, which contain
total expenditure data,
total salary data, and pension data.
Report Cards, Finance / Funding (
per pupil expenditures, district - level
total expenditures,
total salary): http://www.ode.state.or.us/data/reports/toc.aspx#finance/funding
Total salary expenditures, including benefits, are available at the summary and object levels as a percentage of total costs and per pupil c
Total salary
expenditures, including benefits, are available at the summary and object levels as a percentage of
total costs and per pupil c
total costs and
per pupil costs.
The median district spends 4.16 percent of its
total annual
expenditures on transportation ($ 246.06
per pupil).
Income and
expenditure is represented as
total amounts, and
per pupil and
per teacher amounts.
According to the Connecticut Department of Education, Weston spends a
total of $ 45,503
per pupil,
per year, with $ 24,471 of that going for «direct instructional
expenditures.»
[Update: An earlier version of this post incorrectly labeled
total per pupil expenditures as operating
per pupil expenditures.]
According to the latest National Center for Education Statistics data, the average
total per pupil expenditure in U.S. public schools was $ 12,136 in the 2009 - 10 school year.
(It's likely that the shift would have been even more pronounced had the Friedman Foundation cited the higher
total per pupil expenditures in the prompt rather than the partial figure.