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 ...

Spending more to reduce class sizes would do nothing more than worsen this trend. Besides being expensive, placing a cap on class size would dilute the quality of the teacher workforce.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

But budget figures show a large majority of the Education Department’s 2024 spending was directed to students. Hageman’s office did not respond to an inquiry for this fact-check.

The Consumer Expenditure Survey has been updated to include the results from 2023. American consumers experienced the fastest inflation growth of the last 40 years in the years 2021-2023.

TikTok's power and influence continue even as it faces a ban in the U.S. Many Americans use it for financial education: According to research compiled by Chime, one in four Americans used FinTok ...

Surprising Trends in American Spending Habits You Need to Know. By. Marc Davis. Full Bio. ... Spending on education saw a 24% increase in 2023, following an 8.9% increase in 2022.

Today, 17 of the 20 states with high educational spending are Democratically controlled and 17 out of the 20 lowest-funded states are GOP strongholds. There’s more to education than the spending.