Re:How Teachers Came to Be So Underpaid in America
by darkerside on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:19AM
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Most public schools are primarily supported by local taxes, supplemented by state and federal.
Re:How Teachers Came to Be So Underpaid in America
by darkerside on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:41AM
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I stand corrected. It's overall a fairly even split between federal and state. Higher income localities will have a larger ratio come from local property taxes, generally. Poorer neighborhoods rely more on share funding.
Re:How Teachers Came to Be So Underpaid in America
by TulliusCicero on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:19AM
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Right, that's just the feds, it doesn't include state and local spending (which I believe represent the majority of school funds).
The Department of Education is administered by the United States Secretary of Education. It has under 4,000 employees (2018)[1] and an annual budget of $68 billion (2016).¹
More info at the Education Departments website.²
I don't think that's the right number though? That's just what the Education Department spends each year administering education? The FY 2019 Education Budget Fact Sheet² goes on to say:
"The Budget supports $129.8 billion in new postsecondary grants, loans, and work-study assistance to help an estimated 11.5 million students and their families pay for college
So there's clearly more funds being directed to education than just the $68B.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ed...
2. https://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/budget19/index.htm...