RSSFunding Sources for U.S. Public Elementary and Secondary Schools
Public elementary and secondary education in the United States consumed almost $521 billion during the school year that ended in 2006. This amount represented approximately 4% of the gross domestic product for the year, and it exceeded non-military discretionary spending of the federal government (all of the money spent on the activities of the federal government other than entitlements, the military and interest on the debt) during the year.
Given the test results shown in the preceding four charts, should we conclude that the United States does not spend enough money on public education? If not, how much is enough?
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November 22nd, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Here we go again! Any time you have a govt run entity such as the dept of education, naturally it is backwards and inside out devoid of any logic. Here is another example of why throwing tax dollars at the problem, which is all the moronic politicians know how to do, is the last thing we should do. Ask yourself if you would take your own money and put it behind the same people responsible for the failure in our schools today? Why apply more money to the same problem, it makes no sense obviously. I can’t believe this is still a problem! We naturally have all of the wrong people running the show, go figure. I’ll go out on a limb and say that these people most likely lack creativity, imagination and various other traits needed to do a good job. All you have to do is listen to your average high school student speak and it will remove any doubt whether or not the education they have received is serving them well. “Yo, ya know what i’m sayin, it’s like ya know, like??? These kids shouldn’t pass until they exceed the minimum requirements at their grade level no matter how long it takes. No, you can’t lower the academic standards to pass for your inept teachers who also need to learn how to speak fluent english as well. Like everything else, we must streamline our system with innovative, creative people not the same tired morons we have now. They all get F- from me for their performance. We can fix this problem if we act now.