The National Center for Education Statistics shows on this graph how dollar expenditures per public school student - K through 12 - have increased from 1961-2 (the year after I graduated from 12!) to 2008.
3.7 times in current dollars.
An interesting question is how many more students were there in 2008? I looked up the answer and there were apx. 35 million in 1960 and apx. 48 million in 2008 (I found numbers to be fairly difficult to find but believe these are correct).
That is 1.4 times as many students.
Therefore, total expenditures for public education have increased 5.18 times! And as we see in Wisconsin, they want much more!
Todd earlier said perhaps technology is increasing these costs. May have some impact but technology usually pays for itself through efficiency, etc. So I don't think that is the answer.
Are you all happy with this kind of increase in expenditures? Do you think it should be more?
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