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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by missedthecue on Sunday September 13, 2020 @02:48AM (#24458929)
Public education spending as a percentage of GDP is at an all time high. I dont think people appreciate the cost of public schooling in the US. According to data provided by the federal government, public schools in the US spend on average $15,500 per child per year. That is an enormous amount of money and it is only climbing ever higher year after year.
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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by vlovich123 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @05:49PM (#24464214)
Averages are skewed by extremes which feeds into my point that the wealthy neighborhoods spend far more on public schools than in poorer communities.

Even with all that, it also means we’re spending nearly $500000 on a classroom in which a teacher makes 40-50k (let’s round that up to 60-80k for the payroll taxes). Where is the rest of the money going? We could have a hard cap on 20 kids and for teacher pay to be more competitive for less money than we spend today.

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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by asdff on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:00AM (#24458978)
It depends on the area. It's been particularly divested in California, which falls short of the average per child spend despite having the highest GDP. In CA, per child spend has fallen 15% from 1970-1997.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11701044/how-proposition-13-transf...

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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by em500 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @04:34AM (#24459370)
> "In CA, per child spend has fallen 15% from 1970-1997."

Where did you get that? From the graph in your article it looks like it grew by almost 20%

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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by WealthVsSurvive on Sunday September 13, 2020 @11:22AM (#24461417)
You're going to have to break the $15,500 apart to answer the question: what's wrong with that. How much is "administrative"?
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