Before the advent of the Department of Education which has evolved into a Union office for the NEA, the USA ranked near the top in spending per student and test score averages.
Following that and in a pretty well documented progression, the spending has increased over that of the other industrialized countries and the test performance has declined relative to the rest of the world.
It is very supportable that the spending per student is not a corollary to the quality of the education that is taken away by the student. Even domestically, the average parochial school and private school student costs less to educate, but scores higher on the tests that peg the result of the education.
Increasing the cost of anything does not automatically increase the quality of that thing.
You are a victim of liberalism and the resulting mind set. We need to work smarter, not bigger.
As the distance between the spending decision and the decision maker increases, the effectiveness of that decision decreases.
U.S. Students Still Lag Behind Foreign Peers, Schools Make Little Progress In Improving Achievement
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