Despite tremendous and persistent spending growth in the last half - century, the public vastly underestimates
the true cost of public education.
Not exact matches
The
public may only learn about the
true cost of education when a popular political figure stakes a political career on telling them.
Then critics like the Inquirer rushed to conclude that «the movement toward charter schools is raising
costs for
public education, and there is no sign
of true benefit.»
«If it is
true that virtually all
costs are fixed then when
public schools add students they shouldn't get extra money because their
costs are fixed,» said author Benjamin Scafidi, who is director
of the Economics
of Education Policy Center at Georgia College & State University.
Understanding the
true cost of high - quality child care is an important step in building support for a
public investment in early childhood
education.