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 ...

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.

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.

SEATTLE — State and federal education spending for K-12 schools in Washington is way up, but test scores in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math are dropping, according to a non-partisan ...