Historical Trends in Public Education Spending. Many people believe that lack of funding is a problem in public education, ... as shown in Chart 2.

Graphs like these show us the consequences. *One important thing to note: Since we don't know exact enrollment for 2013, CPBB is estimating it based on recent trends.

470.png Homeownership, Rental Spending Housing costs represent another major area of spending. One trend highlighted in the data illustrates the result of more Americans opting to rent rather than ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past 30 years, U.S. colleges and universities have been increasing tuition costs by 2% to 5% per year. But that doesn’t mean all those dollars are allocated for increased school spending ...

Lindsey Burke is the director of the Center for Education Policy and the Mark A. Kolokotrones Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation. Read her research. The U.S. Department of Education ...

Recent data shows that while overall spending has increased, there is great variation among states on public education expenditures per student. The average is $12,612, but New York spends nearly ...

As the Chart Book shows, federal spending per household has grown faster under the George W. Bush Administration than under any administration since Nixon's and Ford's. (See Chart S-4.) ...

The report, “Trends in College Spending, 1999-2009,” paints a picture of higher education in the United States as an enterprise that is turning increasingly to tuition increases to fill ...