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Re:Nobody wants to teach anymore by munificent on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:42PM (#32542505)
You're only looking at federal funding here. Most public school funding in the US comes from states.

My state of Washingon spent $17.5 billion on schooling this year, on top of that federal funding.

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Re:Nobody wants to teach anymore by CharlesW on Sunday August 21, 2022 @02:09PM (#32542792)
Thank you for making that very important point.

That looks like ~28% of the state budget, and per-student spending appears to very high (the 4th highest in the U.S.). Washington is spending 1.5X per student as compared to California, and is apparently not seeing commensurate improvements. I wonder if there are folks working on debugging the apparent inefficiencies of state education systems.

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Re:Nobody wants to teach anymore by ghaff on Sunday August 21, 2022 @03:29PM (#32543575)
It's often not even state budget in the US. In the case of my town, while I believe some money comes from the state in the form of grants etc., about 60% of my town's property taxes go to funding the elementary school and a split (with two other towns) of the regional high school district.
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