What Are We Getting For Our Money? Education Spending Up 185% Nationally Since 1985
We, at times, take it as an article of faith that our schools are underfunded and our teachers are underpaid. The truth is that we’ve almost literally been throwing money at schools and teachers.
Will Franklin asks the obvious questions:
Have we seen higher test scores, higher graduation rates, higher attendance rates, better discipline, higher achievement in the classroom, or any other tangible evidence of success?
No, we haven’t, and that’s a travesty bordering on the edge of a crime. Our union-dominated public education system has no reason to be accountable to the public, because every time there’s a question about dropout rates of failing grades or inadequate teachers it’s assumed that the problem is a lack of funding, and yet another spending increase is authorized almost without question.
What incentive do our school teachers and administrators have to improve when every time they fail we throw more money at them?
