School spending is up. So why aren’t teacher salaries? For example, from 2002 to 2022, per-pupil spending in the Los Angeles Unified School District rose 108%. That’s in real terms, after ...

These graphs allegedly show numbers from the Department of Education that were uncovered by OpenTheBooks. The department's staff has gone down since 2000, but the agency's spending has increased ...

Among several concerns, the group echoed experts who say the graphs highlight overly simplistic spending numbers. On the Massachusetts chart , for instance, a curve shows that school spending ...

While education spending increased by 80% between 2013 and 2023—up to $17,100 per student—results have flatlined ... Chart from Oregon PTA memo showing gap between state spending and Quality ...

A second trend is household sorting by politics. Though most of sorting happens at the sub-state level, the nationalization of politics means that state borders now affect household location choice.

Arizona once again ranks near the bottom in per-pupil spending on public school students, according to data from an annual U.S. Census Bureau survey. Out of 50 states and Washington, D.C., Arizona ...

As school districts and New Hampshire duke it out in the courtroom over education funding, a new study is showing opposite long-term trends about that funding at the state and local levels.

Several Utah education leaders are calling the ballot language for a proposed constitutional amendment on income tax spending — which has nuanced and unknown implications for public education ...